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Richard Wilhelm (10 May 1873 – 2 Mar 1930) was a German sinologist, theologian, and missionary. He is best remembered for his translations of philosophical works and collecting Chinese folk tales, fables and fairy tales. His translation of the I Ching is still regarded as one of the finest, as is...

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. Lang was also a prolific author of fiction works; he wrote his own fairy tales such as Prince Prigio (1889) and Prince Ricardo...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 447 In this 446th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Welsh Fairy Tale “The Curse of Pantannas.” ONCE UPON A TIME, a long, long time ago and far, far away in the land of Wales, at the farm of Pantannas, in Glamorganshire, there...

Linny, the fairy coming from Beijing, tells all the Asian children’s an evergreen fairy tale well known all over the world: Little Red Riding Hood.

A hunger for gold is never satisfied. Homer, one of the lost children of Fairendale, finds himself in the most unusual of circumstances—transformed into a dwarf, utterly alone, in the middle of a strange wood. The wood leads to a walled village, which leads to a storage shed, where the daughter...

Strength comes in numbers of merry men. Philip, one of the lost children of Fairendale, wakes in the woods outside the village of Lincastle, surrounded by the forest's most frightening creatures. Thus begins his daily battle to outsmart the creatures that would like nothing more than to eat...

The Were creatures prowl on a full moon. Anna, one of the lost children of Fairendale, has never been all that brilliant at practicing magic. A vanishing spell has transported her to a lonely forest outside Eastermoor, and her limited skills in sorcery offer her no help in constructing a safe...

The woods are a dangerous place for a girl in red and a boy in fur. Jasper, one of the lost children of Fairendale, wakes from a Vanishing spell well-equipped for the freezing cold of the White Woods. He is astonished—and somewhat pleased, considering the temperature—to learn that he is...

Never underestimate the power of greed. Ruby, one of the lost 12-year-old children of Fairendale, has been transformed into an old woman—but at least she has her magic. She uses this magic to help grow a garden outside the land of Rosehaven, as she used to do in her homeland of Fairendale....

The great beauty of Andrew Lang’s Blue Fairy Book, originally published in 1889, is that it brought together many different fairy tale traditions. There are stories written by Charles Perrault and Mme d’Aulnoy, collected by the Grimm brothers and Asbjornsen and Moe, and translated from the Arabian...

Would you sell your soul to save your skin? The innkeeper’s daughter dreams of a dashing knight and beautiful dresses, but her father marries her off to a lazy woodcutter. So she takes matters—and her husband’s stolen guilders—into her own hands. Little does she know that greed...

The Kingdom of Sunnymerrylandia is a kind-hearted fairy tale written in the classical tradition of children’s literature. The author shows children how important an active way of life and proper nutrition are for people’s health. Brightly - colored and truly magical illustrations will take the...

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...

Revenge keeps dangerous company. Oscar, one of the lost children of Fairendale, has been transported, by way of a Vanishing spell that saved his life, to the uppity land of Lincastle. Here he watches, from a distance and with a heavy chip on his shoulder, the people of Lincastle strut about...