Legends & Fairy Tales
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
This story of Santa Claus veers away slightly from the traditional stories of his beginnings. L. Frank Baum creates a world of fantasy that …
Fairy Tales
This collection of fairy tales include many that you may never have heard of. Published in 1884, Andersen obviously enjoyed putting many un…
History of the Kings of Britain
More medieval romance than history, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae represents the oldest versions we have of many legends …
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Join Nils Holgersson on a remarkable journey across Sweden in Selma Lagerlöf's enchanting tale, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. Origi…
American Indian Fairy Tales
With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by…
The Wind Boy
A gentle, otherworldly novel featuring the mysterious “girl from the mountains” who aides a refugee family in a most unexpected way. Mystica…
The Sleeping Beauty
What began as a translation project became a retelling of four classic fairy tales from the Cabinet des Fees, the French collection of over …
Tales of Folk and Fairies
Tales of Folk and Fairies by Katharine Pyle invites listeners into a world of enchanting stories that span cultures and traditions. This col…
Tales of Old Japan
Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale is a collection of short stories focusing on Japanese life of the Edo period (1803 - 1868). It contains…
Favorite Fairy Tales
This book of favorite fairy tales was compiled and illustrated by Peter Newell. it includes Jack The Giant Killer; Cinderella; Sleeping Beau…
King Arthur and His Knights
A collection of King Arthur's adventures, from his ascent to King of Britain to his death. This book includes some of the crucial Arthurian …
Snowdrop and Other Tales
Many of these tales were published in English in 1909, the Brothers Grimm tales in this book were published separately in 1920 with illustra…
The Iliad for Boys and Girls
Alfred J. Church wrote many books looking at classical literature, but is especially well known for his re-telling of classic books in a sty…
Critias
This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …
Egyptian Tales
Step into the enchanting world of ancient Egypt with Egyptian Tales, a collection of captivating stories that weave together magic, mytholog…
Curly and Floppy Twistytail
The adventures of two little pig boys and their mom and dad. "Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, in the days when there wer…
Le Morte d'Arthur
Le Morte d’Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d’Arthur, “the…
The Age of Fable
Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…
The Story of the Three Little Pigs
This version of the classic tale of the three pigs, their houses and a wolf, published in 1904, has a new twist in its second half. This rec…
Korean Fairy Tales
Everywhere on earth the fairy world of each country is older and perhaps more enduring than the one we see and feel and tread upon. So I tel…