Myths
The Fables of Pilpay
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Abdullah Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ
These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabi…
Tall Tales from Texas
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Mody Coggin Boatright
Some tall tales from Texas. Lies? well, just stretching the truth a bit. These 8 stories have lots of good 'ol Texas 'dialect' in them so …
The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter
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Pádraic Colum
King Manus ruled over the Western Island, and he had a castle that was neither higher nor wider than any other King’s castle. But he had a s…
The Desert
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Mathilde Blind
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Desert by Mathilde Blind. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 10th, 2010.
Fairy Tales from Gold Lands
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May Wentworth
High as the clouds are the mountains boldThat tower in the glorious Land of Gold,And cañons dusky with twilight deepWhere a thousand …
The Book of Nature Myths
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Florence Holbrook
These delightful stories about how natural things began are drawn from the early folk-lore of many races. The wonderful explanations of the…
The Enchanted Castle
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E. Nesbit
The Enchanted Castle follows the adventures of Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen, three children who stumble upon a mysterious hidden castle with a …
Stories of Siegfried
Read by Steven Fellows
Mary Esther Miller Macgregor
Dear Denis,—Here is a story that I found in an old German poem called the Nibelungenlied. The poem is full of strange adventure, adventure o…
Raggedy Ann and Andy
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Johnny Gruelle
Raggedy Ann, you remember, always thought lovely kindly thoughts because there was a little candy heart with the words "I love you"…
Favorite Fairy Tales
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Logan Marshall
Love fairy tales? We all do, and here are some of our "Favorite Fairy Tales." Come join us to the land of China to hear the story …
The Christmas Reindeer
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Thornton W. Burgess
This story follows a young brother and sister who grow up herding reindeer and then discover how the Western story of Santa Claus fits in wi…
Lore of Proserpine
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Maurice Henry Hewlett
If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one…
Solario the Tailor
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William Bowen
Told over six nights, this children's fantasy has all the elements of a good bedtime story: princes and princesses, unicorns, sorcerers and …
The Turquoise Story Book
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Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner
A book compiling stories, legends, and poems about summer and nature, piquing reader's interests by appealing to the reader's fancy, quicken…
Tales from Silver Lands
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Charles Finger
The 1925 Newbery Medal Winner for best children's literature published in the United States, this collection of Central and South American i…
Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound
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William Robert Spencer
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound by William Robert Spencer. This was the Fort…
The Worshipper of the Image
Read by Holly McGuire
Richard Le Gallienne
"The Worshipper of the Image," by Richard Le Galliene first published in 1900. The protagonist Antony, a poet buys a death mask i…
A Primary Reader
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E. Louise Smythe
"This book originated in a series of little reading lessons prepared for the first grade pupils in the Santa Rosa public schools. The o…
The Brownies
Read by Jude Somers
Palmer Cox
The Brownies are delightful, helpful, mischievous characters and this series of rollicking rhymes tells many stories about their adventures.…
The Wishing Horse of Oz
Read by Phil Chenevert
Ruth Plumly Thompson
The magical kingdom of Oz is happily doing all the wonderful things it does in peace and happiness, not knowing that a far off evil and gras…