Joseph Jacobs: 134 books

A classic series of children tales, stories, poems , rhymes and many more collected from the different parts of the world. I bet this book series will not disappoint you. You can give this book to your kids and make them engage in their own world and make them learn english by themselves.

A classic series of children tales, stories, poems , rhymes and many more collected from the different parts of the world. I bet this book series will not disappoint you. You can give this book to your kids and make them engage in their own world and make them learn english by themselves.

IT was my custom for several years to tell my children every Friday night a voyage, told in the first person, but, if the truth must come out, simply "lifted" or at best adapted from all the imaginary voyages I could come across. I led the youngsters to understand that I had gone through...

A classic series of children tales, stories, poems , rhymes and many more collected from the different parts of the world. I bet this book series will not disappoint you. You can give this book to your kids and make them engage in their own world and make them learn english by themselves.

A classic series of children tales, stories, poems , rhymes and many more collected from the different parts of the world. I bet this book series will not disappoint you. You can give this book to your kids and make them engage in their own world and make them learn english by themselves.

A classic series of children tales, stories, poems , rhymes and many more collected from the different parts of the world. I bet this book series will not disappoint you. You can give this book to your kids and make them engage in their own world and make them learn english by themselves.

In a few instances I have introduced or changed an incident. I have never done so, however, without mentioning the fact in the Notes. These have been relegated to the obscurity of small print and a back place, while the little ones have been, perhaps unnecessarily, warned off them. They indicate my sources...

In attempting to get what is little less than a history of the world, from a special point of view, into a couple of hundred duodecimo pages, I have had to make three bites at my very big cherry. In the Appendix I have given in chronological order, and for the first time on such a scale in English,...

I have endeavoured to include in this volume the best and most typical stories told by the chief masters of the Celtic folk-tale, Campbell, Kennedy, Hyde, and Curtin, and to these I have added the best tales scattered elsewhere. By this means I hope I have put together a volume, containing both the best, and the best known folk-tales of the Celts.

From 1899-1900 he edited the journal Folklore, and from 1890 to 1916 he edited multiple collections of fairy tales - English Fairy Tales (1890), Celtic Fairy Tales (1892 anthology), More Celtic Fairy Tales (1894), More English Fairy Tales (1894), Indian Fairy Tales (1912), European Folk and Fairy...

Though this book is your very, very own, you will not mind if other little girls and boys also get copies of it from their mummeys and papas and ganmas and ganpas, for when you meet some of them you will, all of you, have a number of common friends like " The Cinder-Maid," or " The...

A quarter of the tales in this volume, have been collected during the last ten years or so, and some of them have not been hitherto published. Up to 1870 it was equally said of France and of Italy, that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected...