Fairy Tales category: 6157 books

Eighteen enduring fables from one of the world’s best-loved storytellers Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales have long delighted millions of readers, young and old, and inspired myriad film, stage, and musical adaptations. This collection, including beloved classics “The Emperor’s...

This ebook is a fabulous compilation of Andersen’s best fairy tales translated by Susannah Mary Paull, such as: The Angel, The Darning-Needle, The Elfin Hill, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Flying Trunk, The Jumper, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, The Princess and the...

In this book, The Old Steam Engine, who knows the real stories of what really happened in those fairy tales we all hear, tries to set the record straight. He is, in fact, the real Little Engine that Couldnt. When a little girl named Regan happens upon the old steam engine, he is an abandoned and broken...

Just as fairy-tale magic can transform a loved one into a swan, the contributors to this book have transformed traditional fairy tales and legends into stories that are completely original, yet still tantalizingly familiar In the follow-up to A Wolf at the Door, thirteen renowned authors come...

Originally entitled Children's and Household Tales, Grimm's Fairy Tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early nineteenth century. This selection contains 80 stories and includes some of the best known, such as 'Briar-Rose' (perhaps better known as 'Sleeping Beauty'),...

The favourable reception given to my volume of Russian Fairy Tales has encouraged me to follow it up with a sister volume of stories selected from another Slavonic dialect extraordinarily rich in folk-tales – I mean Ruthenian, the language of the Cossacks.

The story of Peter and the Wolf was written as a musical composition for children by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. Since it was first performed in 1936, Peter and the Wolf has been used to teach millions of children about the way music can be used to tell a story. This beautiful Ladybird...

This beautiful Ladybird ebook edition of The Ugly Duckling is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The story is sensitively retold, following the little duckling as he leaves his family and heads off into the great unknown all alone. Other...

This beautiful Ladybird ebook edition of The Little Red Hen is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, following Little Red Hen as she finds some grains of wheat, plants the seeds and looks after the wheat before...

The present book on fairy tales is a delightful and engrossing collection of stories. The author has dipped into the treasure trove of Indian folktales and legends to offer a fine selection of 'fairy tales'.

Once upon a time in a world where magic and technology collide with unexpected consequences…   Elfin, a male fairy, and Mikael, smith and inventor, want to know what's better, magic or technology. Unfortunately they didn't consider the human factor. Now they have to hurry to save their guinea...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 435 In this 435th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Turkish Fairy tale, “The Wizard Dervish”. Turkish fairy tales are often full of wisdom and sobriety. Once, there was a married couple, who didn’t have any child. One...

Award-winning artist Scott Gustafson, inspired by the Golden Age of illustration, continues his re-telling of best loved fairy tales in Volume II of this ebook collection of classics. The fixed layout ebook format retains the lavishly illustrated spreads from his Classic Fairy Tales printed book....

This beautiful Ladybird ebook edition of The Gingerbread Man is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, following the Gingerbread Man as he attempts to escape all of the people and animals who want to gobble him...