Fairy Tales category: 6157 books
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang was also a prolific author of works both...
by Edmund Dulac
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
There he found the Princess asleep, and saw that her face was the face he had seen in the portrai
OH, IF I COULD BUT SHIVER! - A European Fairy Tale with a moral
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 407
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 407
In this 407th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "Oh If I Could But Shiver”.
A long time ago a father had two sons – the elder was clever and the younger stupid. Sometimes of an evening, tales were told...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang was also a prolific author of works both...
by Stephanie Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Princesses Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Rapunzel swap fairy tales with one another in this hilariously clever new classic! Once upon a time, four fairy tale misses, tired of dwarves, witches, princes, and kisses, so bored and fed up, or just ready to flop, upped and left home for a...
by A.L. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2016
Take care what you wish for. You just might get it.
Twelve-year-old Casey doesn’t think life could get any more unfair. Plans for her special basketball tournament are tossed aside by her sister’s wedding plans. She even has to be a bridesmaid now, with all the lace and silk and—oh, the...
PATIENCE STONE AND PATIENCE KNIFE - A Turkish Fairy Tale narrated by Baba Indaba
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 431
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 431
In this 430th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Turkish Fairy Tale of “Patience Stone and Patience Knife”.
A long, long time ago in Turkey there was once a poor woman who had a daughter. While the mother went out washing,...
THE FORTY PRINCES AND THE SEVEN-HEADED DRAGON - A Turkish Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 446
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 446
In this 446th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Turkish Fairy Tale “The Forty Princes and the Seven-Headed Dragon.”
A Padishah (an Eastern King) had forty sons. When it was time to marry, they stipulated that all their...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang was also a prolific author of works both...
THE MAGICIAN AND HIS PUPIL - A German Fairy Tale with a lesson
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 433
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 433
In this 433rd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the German Fairy tale of “The Magician and his Pupil”.
A long, long time ago in Germany there was once a poor shoemaker renowned far and wide as a drunkard. He had a good...
HAUSA FOLKLORE - 22 West African Tales and Stories
Translated and Retold by R Sutherland-Rattray
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
22 West African folk and children's stories, translated and retold by R Sutherland-Rattray.
This volume recounts 22 West African Hausa tales of the origin of the spider, of beautiful maidens, of how hartebeest came by the teardrops under their eyes, of witches, of doctors riding hyenas on pilgrimages,...
THE SIMPLETON - A Turkish Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 436
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 436
In this 436th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Turkish Fairy tale, “The Simpleton”.
A long, long time ago a poor Turkish woman had three sons and a daughter. The youngest son was somewhat simple and lay all day by...
THE FISH PRINCE - A Fairy Tale from India
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 462
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 462
In this 462nd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates an Indian fairy tale - "The Fish Prince”.
ONCE, UPON A TIME, a long, long time ago near the port of Jamnagar, a King and Queen had two sons. The older of the two was a very short...
THE WHITE SNAKE - A Dutch Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 453
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 453
In this 453rd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Eastern Fairy Tale of “The White Snake.”
A long, long time ago and far, far away, lived a king who had a secret, but no one knew what the secret was. One servant, curious...