Legends & Fairy Tales
Canadian Wonder Tales
This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Iris…
In The Days of Giants
This book is made of the stories told by the Northern folk,—the people who live in the land of the midnight sun, where summer is green and p…
Myths and Legends Around the World
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
Favorite Fairy Tales
This book of favorite fairy tales was compiled and illustrated by Peter Newell. it includes Jack The Giant Killer; Cinderella; Sleeping Beau…
Curly and Floppy Twistytail
The adventures of two little pig boys and their mom and dad. "Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, in the days when there wer…
Tales of Old Japan
Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale is a collection of short stories focusing on Japanese life of the Edo period (1803 - 1868). It contains…
Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends
"My desire is to give boys and girls something Jewish which they may be able to regard as companion delights to the treasury of general…
The Heroes
This is Kingsley's masterful retelling of the Greek stories about their Heroes and in a manner suitable for children. "why have I calle…
The Wonder Clock
"Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day," retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the for…
The Iliad for Boys and Girls
Alfred J. Church wrote many books looking at classical literature, but is especially well known for his re-telling of classic books in a sty…
Japanese Fairy World
William Elliot Griffis born in Philadelphia in 1843, was an educator, author and Congregational minister. In 1870 he was invited to go to Ja…
Fairy Tales
This collection of fairy tales include many that you may never have heard of. Published in 1884, Andersen obviously enjoyed putting many un…
Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson
The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this …
The Celtic Twilight
I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy…
Thirty More Famous Stories Retold
Thirty More Famous Stories Retold, the sequel to the popular Fifty Famous Stories Retold, retells the stories of legendary people and mythol…
Myths and Legends of Alaska
Editor Katharine Berry Judson collates and presents a narrative history of Alaskan Myths. Originally gathered and recorded by government eth…
Fairy Tales from South Africa
The stories in this collection come from the oral traditions of the people from Swaziland, Matabeleland (Ndebele people) and Zululand in So…
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
This story of Santa Claus veers away slightly from the traditional stories of his beginnings. L. Frank Baum creates a world of fantasy that …
Swanhilde
Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his fairy tales (Märchen). Some of his stories, such as the Caliph…
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to pleasure children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in whi…