Myths
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Folk Lore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinct…
Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods
William Drake Westervelt was an eminent scholar of Hawaiian culture, language, and history. In this capacity, he collected the ghost stories…
Tales of Giants From Brazil
Brazil is the land of the giant among all the rivers of the world. It is the land of giant fruits and giant flowers. Of course it is the lan…
Romulus
Jacob Abbott wrote many historical books for children. He was careful to ensure historical accuracy, and as he said himself in the preface t…
The Topaz Story Book
From the Introduction: "Nature stories, legends, and poems appeal to the young reader’s interest in various ways. Some of them suggest …
Blackfoot Lodge Tales
This work is a collection of tales told by Elders in a Blackfoot lodge centered around the tribe. In addition to the traditional stories and…
Irish Fairy Tales
Collection of Irish Fairy Tales set in a wooded, Medieval Ireland filled with larger-than-life hunters, warriors, kings, and fairies - Summa…
The Islands of Magic
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…
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreord…
The Rainbow Book
"Tales of Fun & Fancy" is the subtitle of this story book and it well describes the contents which are written with a great de…
Animal Fables from the Dark Continent
A. O. Stafford, an African American educator and folklorist, wrote this collection of African and African Diaspora folktales for students in…
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
The fourth and final volume of Middle Eastern tales, originally written in Arabic. Scheherazade tries to prolong her husband's interest in h…
The Faerie Queene
The Second Booke of the Faerie Queene contayning The Legende of Sir Guyon or of Tempaurance. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it c…
Sylvie and Bruno
The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional w…
Aesop's Fables
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
The Queen Who Flew
In this delightful tale, the naive and sheltered Queen Eldrida learns the secret of flight from her friend the bat and sets off by air for a…
Balder Dead
The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. L…
El Libro de Las Mil Noches y Una Noche
Ningún libro tan conocido, y menos conocido que esta famosa colección de novelas, monumento literario del pueblo árabe.…
Kinder- und Hausmärchen
Eine Sammlung der bekannten Volksmärchen, herausgegeben von den Brüdern Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm. Summary by Sonia
Märchen
Caroline Auguste Fischer geb. Venturini war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin und Frauenrechtlerin. Sie schreibt mit viel Witz und Ironie. In i…