Legends & Fairy Tales
Indian Why Stories: Sparks From War Eagle's Lodge-Fire
Read by Sacha Chander
Frank Bird Linderman
Delightful fables, collected by a devotee of Indian lore, recounts many of the legends told to him by tribal members, among them intriguing …
The Aesop for Children
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Aesop
A collection of Aesop's fables for children from the classic American book illustrated by Milo Winter. Read along and see the illustrations …
Personal Collection of Short Tales compiled by Carmie
Read by Carmie
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
This is a selection of the fairy tales (in English) written by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm in the early 19th Century. The…
The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book
Read by Carol Box
Constance Cary Harrison
"And now, mamma, until your tea is ready, we know what you must do," said the children, in a breath. "Tell us a story—a 'real…
West African Folk Tales
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William H. Barker
A collection of folk tales mostly centered around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as …
Days
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 10, 2012.As a lectur…
The Tin Woodman of Oz (version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
L. Frank Baum
A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychr…
Fifty-One Tales
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Lord Dunsany
Very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagi…
Myths and Legends of Alaska
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Katharine Berry Judson
Editor Katharine Berry Judson collates and presents a narrative history of Alaskan Myths. Originally gathered and recorded by government eth…
The Little House in the Fairy Wood
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Ethel Cook Eliot
A lonely boy is taken in by the friendly inhabitants of a little house in the woods. Through this adventure, he finds the fairy folk, nature…
Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice
Read by Arthur Krolman
Homer
Homeric Hymns are thirty-three poems each paying homage to a certain Greek god. Only a few of the poems are more than 250 lines while the re…
Old Peter's Russian Tales
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Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public …
The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French
Read by mlcui
Charles Perrault
What began as a translation project became a retelling of four classic fairy tales from the Cabinet des Fees, the French collection of over …
Winnie-the-Pooh
Read by Phil Chenevert
A. A. Milne
Winnie the Pooh, the loveable little bear with a great big heart (and only a slightly less large appetite for honey), has fun and adventures…
The Magic of Oz (version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
L. Frank Baum
This is the second to last book in the OZ series that Baum actually wrote himself before he passed away. "A Faithful Record of the R…
The Story of the Three Little Pigs
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
L. Leslie Brooke
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…
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 04
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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James Mcglothlin
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…
The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Pass…
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Charles Godfrey Leland
This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
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William Butler Yeats
This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and trans…
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 7)
Read by Lyn Stanley
L. Frank Baum
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to pleasure children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in whi…