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This eBook has been optimised for viewing on colour devices. Based on the traditional fairy tale 'The Gingerbread Man', this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Follow the gingerbread man as he tries to escape all manner of hungry animals and people! Part of the...

Based on the traditional fairy tale 'The Magic Porridge Pot', this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Find out what happens when a magic pot won't stop cooking porridge! Part of the Ladybird 'First Favourite Tales' series - a perfect introduction to fairy tales...

   This book, like the others of this series, has only been rendered possible by the courtesy and complaisance of the various collectors from whom I have culled my treasures. In particular, I have to thank Mr. Larminie and Mr. Eliot Stock for permission to include that fine tale "Morraha"...

Based on the traditional fairy tale 'Chicken Licken', this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Chicken Licken thinks the sky is falling down, so he sets off to tell the king. What will happen to him and his friends Henny Penny, Turkey Lurkey and Goosey Loosey?...

Based on the traditional fairy tale 'The Little Red Hen', this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. The little red hen decides to plant some wheat, but the lazy cat, dog and rat won't help her! Part of the Ladybird 'First Favourite Tales' series - a perfect introduction...

Based on the traditional fairy tale 'The Enormous Turnip', this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Find out what happens when a very, very large turnip doesn't want to be pulled out of the ground! Part of the Ladybird 'First Favourite Tales' series - a perfect...

Herein are a collection of children’s stories from the East are a collection of Hindu and Buddhist tales, which are a marked change from our normal diet of Western folklore. In this volume you will find 30 children’s which have their roots in the life giving waters of the Brahmaputra and Ganges...

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...

Having stripped the rainbow of its primary colors for titles for his annual collection of fairy-tales, Mr. Lang was forced to employ a neutral tint. Besides "The Red Fairy Book," we have had a Blue, a Yellow, a Green, and a Pink, a " Blue Poetry Book," a " Red True Story Book,"...

This 1st volume contains 23 Scottish ursgeuln, or tales, from the Western Highlands of Scotland. These are tales and stories in which something ‘Fairy’ or magical occurs, something extraordinary--fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals, or simply the remarkable stupidity of some of the characters. Herein...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 386 In this 386th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "THE FAIRY BRIDE”. There was once a lovely young Mohican-Pequot girl named Neen-i-zu, the only daughter of an Indian chief, who lived on the shore of Lake...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 406 In this 406th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale “The Mermaid And The Boy.” This is a Sámi fairy tale from Lapland collected by Josef Calasanz Poestion and published in Lapplandische Märchen (1886). Andrew Lang...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 317 In this 317th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "PRINCE CHERI”. ONCE upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away, there was once a king who was such an honourable man that his subjects called him "The...

Herein are 57 enchanting illustrated folk tales from Simla, now Shimla, region in the Indian foothills of the Himalayas.   Here you will find stories like: Tabaristan, The Priest and the Barber, The Fourth Wife is Wisest, Abul Hussain Anar Pari, The Dog Temple, The Beautiful Milkmaid, Sheik Chilli...