Fairy Tales A fabulous new edition of the classic story collection written by Monty Python’s Terry Jones and illustrated by Michael Foreman Sail to the moon with a brave and beautiful princess, swim around the world with a talking fish, and meet a boy who has a dinosaur in his shed, in this treasury filled with intrigue and adventure. These 30 hilarious tales will have both children and parents rolling with laughter. List Price: Price:…. Click Here to Read More

Philippine Folklore Stories (Myths, Legend and Folk Tales from Around the World) It is said that Filipinos have always been awed by the fairy tales and epics from other lands. This is to be expected as the Philippines has been a cross-roads on the fabled Spice Route for hundreds of years. It is also to be expected that traders brought wonderful tales of far-off lands. From the west tales of Egypt, Arabia and India and from the North and…. Click Here to Read More

Folk and Fairy Tales, concise edition This concise version of Folk and Fairy Tales is designed to provide a more compact and versatile collection for teaching children’s literature. Like the complete edition, it includes comparative versions of classic tales (Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and a selection of coming-of-age tales) from different cultures and time periods, substantial introductory material, color illustrations,…. Click Here to Read More

Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. List Price: $ 0.00 Price:…. Click Here to Read More

Fairy Tales A gawky, dreamy boy, Hans Christian Andersen grew up to become a profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. Andersen gave us the now standard versions of some traditional folk tales as well as original stories that have enchanted generations of readers. To commemorate the bicentennial of his birth, Viking will publish a new translation of thirty of his extraordinary tales,…. Click Here to Read More

Folk Tales from Simla From Simla, once the summer capital of India under British rule, comes a charming collection of Himalayan folk lore, known for its beauty, wit, and mysticism. These 56 stories, fire-side tales of the hill-folk of Northern India, will surely delight readers of all ages. One of the stories, "The Power of Fate, " is a tale of a Rajah who summons his six daughters to ask each whether she is satisfied with her lot…. Click Here to Read More

The Shoemaker’s Apron: A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (Classic Reprint) Czech, Moravian, andS lovak origin, and are to be found in many versions in the books of folk tales collected byE rben, Nemcova, Kulda, Dobsinsky, Rimavsky, Benes-T rebizsky, Miksicek. I got them first by word of mouth and afterwards hunted them out in the old books. My work has been that of retelling rather than translating since in most cases…. Click Here to Read More

Tales of the Jazz Age (Classic Reprint) Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean. Much as I desire to make him an appealing character, I feel that it would be unscrupulous to deceive you on that point. He was a bred-in-the-bone, dyed-in-the-wool, ninety-nine threequarters percent Jelly-bean and he grew lazily all during Jelly-bean season, which is every season, downn the land of the Jelly-beans well below the Mason-D ixon line. N ow if you call a…. Click Here to Read More

Japanese Fairy Tales This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works. List Price: $ 17.99 Price:…. Click Here to Read More

Seneca Myths and Folk Tales "On the Cattaraugus reservation, it was part of a child’s initial training to learn why the bear lost its tail, why the chipmunk has a striped back, and why meteors flash in the sky," writes Arthur C. Parker at the beginning of "Seneca Myths and Folk Tales," His blood ties to the Senecas and early familiarity with their culture led to a distinguished career as an archaeologist and to the…. Click Here to Read More