Fairy Tales category: 6157 books

We love to imagine pretend worlds where magic can make the impossible happen. We would relish that power, if only it were real. Magic intrigues us, which is why fairy tales throughout the ages have used magic as a device to drive the plot. That magic transports us to an unfamiliar world where, immersed,...

As a storyteller and a parent, I know better than most how precious the old stories are, how rich a heritage we can pass to the next generation through myths, legends, fairytales and traditional stories. I have written this book to give other parents inspiration when their offspring clamour for “one...

The 40 legends, fairy tales and folklore stories in this book belong to the Yoruba. They relate the adventures of men and animals, and try to explain the mysteries of Nature—Why Women have Long Hair, How the Leopard got his Spots, the Three Magicians, the Boa-Constrictor, How the Elephant got his...

Lucy M. Scott's collection of short stories, 'Dewdrops from Fairyland' was originally published in 1912. The stories were written by the author when she was just nine years old, produced sporadically and originally entitled 'Entirely Unaided'. This beautifully illustrated collection would make for...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 434 In this 434th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates two Tibetan Fairy tales, each with a moral, being “The Tiger and the Frog” and “The Story of the Donkey and the Rock”. In the first story, the tiger, which lives in the...

THIS book contains 20  Czech and Slovak folk and fairy tales translated and retold in English by Parker Fillmore, with excellent illustrations and decorations by Jan Matulka. Drawn from original Slavic sources, and chosen for their variety of subject and range of interest with tales like The Twelve...

Gods and goddesses, magicians and mermaids, fairies, warriors and giants weave a series of enchanting spells for young readers in this charming collection of age-old Scottish stories. Derived from ancient manuscripts as well as modern Gaelic storytellers, the tales include such colorful and dramatic...

For a generation Andrew Lang has delighted the children, and grown-ups too for that matter, with his fairy books. This is of a new sort, for the tales are of many different kinds. Some are true, like the history of the man who met in America the other man whom he had seen hanged for murdering in England....

The purpose of this volume is to furnish our younger readers of the present generation with a fresh supply of stories—half legend, half fairy-tale—of a kind with which the children of an earlier time were more familiar. Herein you will find 19 illustrated stories from the Rhineland and...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 443 In this 443rd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates two Tibetan Fairy Tales. The first is “The Man and the Ghost” and the second “How The Rabbit Killed The Lion." In our first tale we read of a man walking along a remote...

The Yellow Fairy Book is a wonderful collection of tales from all over the world. There are such familiar old favorites as the "Story of the Emperor's New Clothes," "The Tinder-box," "How to Tell a True Princess," and "The Nightingale." There are less familiar tales by Madame d'Aulnoy and from the...

Phasie was a good boy and loved to go on walks with his friends and eat oatmeal for breakfast. Everything would have been perfect, were it not for one problem: an awful, purple dragon often came to scare him in his dreams. His attempt to solve this problem led to amazing discoveries and adventures. -- Since...

Readers of all ages will delight in these captivating retellings of some of Shakespeare's most beloved dramas. Written in the familiar storytelling style of fairy tales, they recount the plots of eight plays. The imaginative and easy-to-understand versions offer the ideal way to introduce children...

In this volume you will find 20 illustrated children’s stories by the master story-teller Hans Christian Andresen. The Hans Andersen Fairy Tales will be read in schools and homes as long as there are children who love to read. As a story-teller for children the Hans Andersen has no rival in the...