Category Archives: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
The Book of Dragons
Author(s): E. Nesbit A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr...
Christmas Carol (version 05)
Author(s): Charles Dickens The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold-hearted man of business and has...
Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch
Author(s): Eva Katherine Gibson Annie Elfrida McLane lives in a little brown house of the...
My Father’s Dragon
Few children’s stories manage to blend absurd logic and practical problem-solving as effortlessly as Ruth...
Flower Fables
Author(s): Louisa May Alcott Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcott’s first book, penned at 16...
The Princess and Curdie
Author(s): George MacDonald The Princess and Curdie is the sequel to The Princess and the...
Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1
Author(s): Unknown This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district...
Legend Land Volume 1 & 2
Author(s): Lyonesse “Being a collection of some of the OLD TALES told in those Western...
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Author(s): Peter Christen AsbjørnsenJørgen Engebretsen Moe Once on a time there was a poor husbandman...
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know
Author(s): Hamilton Wright Mabie The group of stories brought together in this volume differ from...
The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes
Author(s): Pádraic Colum “Because she used to herd Goats in the high places and the...
The Singing Mouse Stories
Before Emerson Hough achieved widespread fame for his sprawling frontier westerns, he crafted a quiet,...
Stories of King Arthur’s Knights Told to the Children
Author(s): Mary Esther Miller MacGregor A collection of Arthurian tales retold for children. (Summary by...
The Yellow Fairy Book
Author(s): Andrew Lang “Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books or Andrew Lang’s “Coloured” Fairy Books are a...
Thais
Author(s): Anatole France The fourth century ascetic Paphnuce, journeys from his remote desert hermitage to...
Dot and Tot of Merryland
Author(s): L. Frank Baum Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L....
Old Greek Stories
Author(s): James Baldwin A retelling of old Greek stories involving mythological heroes and their adventures....
Tales of Old Japan
Author(s): Lord Redesdale Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale is a collection of short...
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Long before red coats and commercial advertising defined modern holiday lore, L. Frank Baum constructed...
Black Tales for White Children
Author(s): Chauncey Hugh StigandNancy Stigand Chauncey Hugh Stigand wrote this book of 29 East African...
The Orange Fairy Book
Author(s): Andrew Lang Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books or Andrew Lang’s “Coloured” Fairy Books constitute a...
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06
Sir Richard Francis Burton’s uncompromising 1885 translation of medieval Middle Eastern lore preserved the raw,...
Stories from the Faerie Queene
Author(s): Mary Macleod The object of this volume is to excite interest in one of...
The House of the Wolfings
Author(s): William Morris William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period...
House Of Pomegranates
Author(s): Oscar Wilde A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by...
The Fairy Book
Victorian literary figures frequently attempted to standardize raw oral folklore into structured prose, but few...
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01
Author(s): Anonymous The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king,...
Granny’s Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading)
Author(s): Frances Browne Her most famous work, Granny’s Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and...
The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales
Hans Christian Andersen’s late-career fiction moves far beyond cheerful bedtime fables, drifting into haunting meditations...
The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series
Author(s): Richard Harris Barham The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories...