Anon : 1008 books
by Anon
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features the American poet, Emily Dickenson (1830-1886) who is often considered as an eccentric and whose poetry was published, in the main, posthumously.
CINDERELLA or the Little Glass Slipper - A Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 246
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 246
In this 246th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the story of “” also known in some places as “the Little Glass Slipper.”
A widower marries for a second time after his first wife passes away. Very soon after the marriage,...
by Anon
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
‘Mother Goose – The Old Nursery Rhymes’ is a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes, penned by the legendary (and only some claim imaginary), ‘Mother Goose.’ They have inspired many folklorists and illustrators (including Charles Perrault, Arthur Rackham, Jessie Willcox-Smith and Jennie...
THE ADVENTURES OF SAID - A Children’s Fairy Tale from Ancient Persia
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 360
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 360
In this 360th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "THE ADVENTURES OF SAID”.
Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as...
by Anon E. Mouse, Illustrated by JOHN R. NEILL, Compiled and Edited by Hartwell James
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2017
Persia, that magical and mystical land centred on the Silk Route, is a land rich in folk lore. For hundreds and hundreds of years the stories in this book, and many others as well, have been told to the wondering boys and girls of that country, who, as they hear them, picture their native land as...
by Anon
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The amusing anonymously written letters of a YMCA canteen girl recounting her life serving the Doughboys of the First World War. As her mother who collected and published the letters explains:
“May I in a few words explain why I have placed at your disposal the accompanying manuscript? It consists...
by Anon E. Mouse, Illustrated by H. J. Ford, Compiled and Retold by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
Herein are 63 illustrated true stories about animals which every child will enjoy! In this book you will find stories about bears, otters, eagles, horses, dogs, dolphins, ants, frogs, elephants, parrots, snakes, lions, Cayman, weasels and many, many more besides.
"The Animal Story Book"...
by Anon.
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
In 1914, the anonymous author, a journalist by profession with no pretensions to military training, embarked on one of the most outrageous escapades of the First World War as he travelled behind German lines, collecting information on the German war machine. Across Germany, the Balkans and even so...
THE RAVEN OF THE GIRALDA - A Legend of Spain
Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 429
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 429
In this 429th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Japanese Legend, "THE RAVEN OF THE GIRALDA”.
A long, long time ago, a wise raven lived in the top of the Giralda, the Moorish bell tower of the cathedral in Seville,...
by Anon E. Mouse, Retold by Charles Perrault, Illustrated by Charles Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Herein are 11 of the most popular children’s stories taken from the world of Fairydom retold by master storyteller, Charles Perrault. The first nine are well known with the last two perhaps less well-known. The stories are further enhanced by the twelve woodcuts by Charles Robinson.
These...
GYPSY FOLK TALES - BOOK TWO - 39 illustrated Gypsy tales
39 illustrated Gypsy children's stories from Transylvania, Slovakia, Moravia, Bohemia, Poland, England, Wales and Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This second volume is a treasure chest of classic illustrated Gypsy Folklore stories and contains a further 39 Gypsy stories, tales and legends from Transylvania, Slovakia, Moravia, Bohemia, Poland, England, Wales and Scotland.
Herein you will find stories like “The Black Dog of the Wild...
DONKEY SKIN - A Children’s Story with a moral to tell
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 251
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 251
In this 251st issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the children’s story of “DONKEY SKIN”.
ONCE upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away there was a time a king who was so much beloved by his subjects that he thought himself...
THE MAGIC TURBAN, THE MAGIC WHIP AND THE MAGIC CARPET - A Turkish Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 438
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 438
In this 438th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates two Tibetan Fairy Tales – “The Magic Turban, The Magic Whip And The Magic Carpet”
Turkish fairy tales have a gravity of their own and are more often than not full of wisdom.
In...
by Anon.
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This early work on reading tea leaves is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains information on the interpretation of symbols and their future predictions. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in reading tea leaves. Many of the earliest...