Myths
Children's Short Works, Vol. 016
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E. Nesbitt and Charles Dickens
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 016: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Myths That Every Child Should Know
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
A selection of famous and timeless myths, adapted for a junior audience. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)
The Islands of Magic
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Elsie Spicer Eells
LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beauti…
Kabumpo in Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
Dear children: Do you like Elephants? Do you believe in Giants? And do you love all the jolly people of the Wonderful Land of Oz? Well then …
The Emperor's New Clothes
Read by Phil Chenevert
Hans Christian Andersen
This is a collection of a few of my personal favorite stories by Hans Christian Andersen that I most loved as a child and still enjoy as an …
Under the Sunset
Read by Sandra Cullum
Bram Stoker
“Under the Sunset” is a collection of eight amazing fantasy tales from the mind and imagination of the legendary Bram Stoker (Dracula.) Orig…
The Legends of Genesis
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Hermann Gunkel
The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis. Gunkel uses form critical ana…
Gawayne and the Green Knight (Lewis Translation Version 2)
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The Gawain Poet, Charlton Miner Lewis, The Gawain Poettranslated Bycharlton Miner Lewis and The Gawain Poettranslated By Charlton Miner Lewis
Published in 1903, Gawayne and the Green Knight is a modern-language retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a 14th-century verse roma…
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains
Read by Kyle Van DeGlast
Katharine Berry Judson
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains is a compendium of myths and legends from the Great Plains region of the US. It includes many short st…
Romances of Old Japan
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Yei Theodora Ozaki
A collection of romances from old Japan rendered into English by Yei Theodora Ozaki. Filled with tales of honor, adventure, tragedy, and rom…
The Book of Stories for the Storyteller
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Fanny Coe
This group project is a collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of authors, bro…
Five Children and It (version 4)
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E. Nesbit
When four children (and their baby brother makes five) manage to uncover the long-dormant Psammead (in plain English, then, Sand-Fairy) in a…
The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes
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Pádraic Colum
"Because she used to herd Goats in the high places and the rocky places, she went by the name of Girl-go-with-the-Goats. But that was n…
Maoriland Fairy Tales
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Edith Howes
Most of the tales have some basis in history. It is an oral language so all histories have to be remembered and retold. To help with this me…
The Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World
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Willis George Emerson
The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the stor…
Flower Fables
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Louisa May Alcott
Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcott's first book, penned at 16 for Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter, Ellen.(Summary by Clarica)
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
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James Knowles and Sir Thomas Malory
The Publishers have asked me to authorise a new edition, in my own name, of this little book—now long out of print—which was written by me t…
Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children
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Mary Esther Miller Macgregor
A collection of Arthurian tales retold for children. (Summary by Joy Chan)
Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology
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Mary H. Fostertranslated Bymabel H. Cummings, Mary H. Fosterandmabel H. Cummings and Mary H. Foster And Mabel H. Cummings
Asgard Stories - Tales from Norse Mythology. To all our Children who have loved the hearing of these Asgard Stories. This little volume is t…
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
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Charles Perrault
This book is an early collection of ten well-known fairy tales. It is thought to have begun the genre of fairy tales.(Summary by A.L. Gramou…