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by Compiled and Edited by Andrew Lang, Illustrated by H. J. Ford, Anon E. Mouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Germany and Europe had the Grimm Bothers and the UK and English speaking nations had Andrew Lang. Here is his ORANGE FAIRY BOOK, yet another volume in his Many Coloured Fairy Book series. This extraordinary volume contains 33 old and forgotten folk and fairy tales including stories like The Magic...
by J. S. Rarey, W. J. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2019
Well over 150 years before Robert Redford directed and starred in “The Horse Whisperer”, inspired by Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt and Buck Brannaman, Willis J. Powell was whispering to horses and training them much in the way the fictitious character Tom Booker did in the 1985 film. Indeed this volume...
TWO LEGENDS OF ARDMORE - Folklore from Co. Waterford, Ireland
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 413
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 413
In this 413th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates "TWO LEGENDS OF ARDMORE.”
In the first story Baba Indaba tells of St Declan’s, or St. Deglan’s, coming to Ireland and how the people of the place where he was tried...
GHOST STORIES OF ST ANDREWS - 17 Scottish Ghostly Tales
Scottish Ghosts, Gouls and Apparitions aplenty
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
St Andrews is renowned for its ecclesiastical ruins, ancient university and proud distinction as ‘the home of golf’. Some say the town deserves far more recognition for its paranormal activity and links.
In 1911, W.T. Linskill penned the original edition of St Andrews Ghost Stories, of...
TWO BROWNIE STORIES - THE BROWNIES RIDE and THE BROWNIES AT SCHOOL
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 338
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 338
In this 338th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates two Brownie tales from Devon - "THE BROWNIES RIDE and THE BROWNIES AT SCHOOL”.
In the first story, the Brownies were coming home from school, these Brownie boys, and they...
by Anon E. Mouse, Retold by Elsie Spicer Eells, Illustrated by HELEN M. BARTON
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
It should be noted that there are not many volumes of Brazilian Folklore to be found which makes this volume all the more precious. Within this unique volume of Brazilian Fairy Tales, you will find 18 stories from that vast and amazing country. Tales like How Night Came, How the Rabbit Lost His Tail,...
CANADIAN FAIRY TALES - 26 Illustrated Native American Stories
26 Canadian Indian tales
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
The 26 tales in this collection, were gathered from various parts of Canada—at a time when the most convenient method of travel was by the Canadian waterways. The compiler travelled the rivers, lakes and oceans where sailors and fishermen still watched the stars. He gathered them in forest clearings...
by Terry Hayward
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Murder in a public park, the daughter of a jailed mob boss is kidnapped and so the action begins. All this violence is just to be a warning, and put pressure on, a jailed mobster to prevent him spilling all to the authorities. The mobster’s gardener is arrested for the murder, lively courtroom drama...
HOW IAN DIREACH GOT THE BLUE FALCON - A Scottish Children’s Story
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 371
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 371
In this 371st issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale " HOW IAN DIREACH GOT THE BLUE FALCON”.
ONCE upon a time, long ago and far away, a king and queen ruled over the islands of the west, and they had one son,...
THE NORWEGIAN BOOK OF FAIRY TALES - 38 children's stories from Norse-land
Children's Stories from the land of the Vikings
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
These 38 Norwegian folk and fairy tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, have been handed down through the generations by hinds and huntsmen, woodcutters and fisher-folk, who led hard and lonely lives amid primitive surroundings are, perhaps, among the most fascinating the Scandinavian...
by Anon E. Mouse, Translated by George Webbe Dasent, Illustrated by C. E. ST. JOHN-MILDMAY
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
THE EVENTS described in the saga of Gisli the Soursop reach from about the year AD930 to AD980, in a time when the law of Iceland had not yet been established. Men were ruled by their conscience and Gisli, a champion of Iceland, was outlawed for murder by the Chieftain Bork at the Thorsness Thing,...
by Anon E. Mouse, Collected by Allan Ramsay, Translated by Cyrus Adler
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
During the course of a number of visits to Istanbul, Cyrus Adler* became interested in the tales that were being told in the coffee houses of the city, and many they were.
Herein are 29 of the most notable Turkish and Islamic stories recorded and translated by Adler in partnership with Allan...
THE FOUR BROTHERS - A Children's Story from India
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 461
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 461
In this 461st issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates an Indian fairy tale - "The Four Brothers”.
ONCE, UPON A TIME, a long, long time ago in the jungles of India stood a very old tree.
Every spring it put out fresh green...
THE POI-DANCE - A Maori Legend
Baba Indaba Children's Stories issue 466
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2019
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 466
In this 466th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates a Maori Legend - "The Poi Dance – A Maori Legend”.
ONCE, UPON A TIME, a long, long time ago and far, far away, out of the semi-darkness of the whare-puni (house hall) a shrill...