Legends & Fairy Tales
The Little People of the Snow
Read by Bruce Kachuk
William Cullen Bryant
Filled with the exuberance of youth and the thrill of discovery, Eva embarks on a Winter walk across snowy fields venturing farther and long…
The Hunting of the Snark
Read by Craig Franklin
Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense p…
Old Fashioned Fairy Tales
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Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
The title may lead you to think that these are retellings of old familiar fairy tales. Not so at all. These are completely new stories bu…
The Myths and Fables of To-day
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Samuel Adams Drake
Samuel Adams was born in 1833, began journalism in 1858, served in the Army for 10 years & returned home to continue with his journalism…
My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales
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Edric Vredenberg and Edric Vredenburg
Here they are again, the old, old stories, the very best; dear Cinderella, wicked old Bluebeard, tiny Thumbling, beautiful Beauty and the ug…
Jātaka Tales
Read by Scotty Smith
H. T. Francis
Jātaka tales are ancient Indian folktales that form a part of Buddhist teaching, telling stories of the Buddha’s past lives. Akin to Aesop’s…
The Race Of The Swift
Read by David Wales
Edwin Carlile Litsey
This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales
The Meadow Sprite
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Rudolf Baumbach, Richard von Volkmann and Richard Von Volkmann
Gertrude Schottenfels has collected and arranged eleven original tales from Germany in this volume. Ms Schottenfels alternates between stori…
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
Read by Phil Benson
William T. Cox
A limbless reptilian monster that propels itself through the swamps with a propellor-tipped tail? A creature so ashamed of its monstrous app…
Teddy Bears
Read by Linda Andrus
Adah Louise Sutton
Set in the early 1900's, this is a delightful story of a tribe of Teddy Bears arrival in the department store and the adventures some of the…
Tall Tales from Texas
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Mody Coggin Boatright
Some tall tales from Texas. Lies? well, just stretching the truth a bit. These 8 stories have lots of good 'ol Texas 'dialect' in them so …
Bunny Brothers
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Jacqueline Clayton
Pinkie is one of a whole bunch of bunny brothers and sisters. Their mother, Mrs. Bunny, is a busy woman and often exasperated with the exub…
The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter
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Pádraic Colum
King Manus ruled over the Western Island, and he had a castle that was neither higher nor wider than any other King’s castle. But he had a s…
South African Folk-Tales
Read by laurakgibbs
James A. Honeÿ
James Albert Honeij (Honey) has collected a variety of South African folktales from previously published sources in English translation, to …
The Fables of Pilpay
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Abdullah Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ
These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabi…
The Desert
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Mathilde Blind
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Desert by Mathilde Blind. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 10th, 2010.
Fairy Tales from Gold Lands
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May Wentworth
High as the clouds are the mountains boldThat tower in the glorious Land of Gold,And cañons dusky with twilight deepWhere a thousand …
The Enchanted Castle
Read by Damerel
E. Nesbit
The Enchanted Castle follows the adventures of Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen, three children who stumble upon a mysterious hidden castle with a …
The Book of Nature Myths
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Florence Holbrook
These delightful stories about how natural things began are drawn from the early folk-lore of many races. The wonderful explanations of the…
Raggedy Ann and Andy
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Johnny Gruelle
Raggedy Ann, you remember, always thought lovely kindly thoughts because there was a little candy heart with the words "I love you"…