Folk Tales Every Child Should Know
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
We have always loved stories. people have always entertained each other by telling tales around the campfire; traveling storytellers were huge crowd-pullers. Many of these stories were passed down through the generations, largely unchanged. "The stories made by the people, and told before evening fires, or in public places and at the gates of inns in the Orient, belong to the ages when books were few and knowledge limited, or to people whose fancy was not hampered by familiarity with or care for facts; they are the creations, as they were the amusement, of men and women who were children in knowledge, but were thinking deeply and often wisely of what life meant to them, and were eager to know and hear more about themselves, their fellows, and the world. In the earlier folk-stories one finds a childlike simplicity and readiness to believe in the marvellous; and these qualities are found also in the French peasant's version of the career of Napoleon. " (from the Introduction). - Summary by Lynne Thompson (4 hr 9 min)
Chapters
Introduction | 8:15 | Read by Jennifer Dorr |
Hans In Luck | 12:35 | Read by Jennifer Dorr |
Why The Sea Is Salt | 10:01 | Read by Todd Jenken |
The Lad Who Went To The North Wind | 6:49 | Read by Lynne T |
The Lad And The Deil | 2:09 | Read by Claire Schreuder |
Ananzi And The Lion | 8:13 | Read by Lynne T |
The Grateful Foxes | 17:08 | Read by mlcui |
The Badger's Money | 9:52 | Read by mlcui |
Why Brother Bear Has No Tail | 7:31 | Read by Ellen Preckel |
The Origin Of Rubies | 9:40 | Read by Jude Somers |
Long, Broad And Sharpsight | 20:09 | Read by Ellen Preckel |
Intelligence And Luck | 8:15 | Read by Jennifer Dorr |
George With The Goat | 10:17 | Read by Greg Giordano |
The Wonderful Hair | 5:43 | Read by Alexis Castro |
The Dragon And The Prince | 15:05 | Read by mlcui |
The Good Children | 9:15 | Read by Greg Giordano |
The Dun Horse | 11:55 | Read by Ellen Preckel |
The Greedy Youngster | 19:20 | Read by Ellen Preckel |
Hans Who Made The Princess Laugh | 11:03 | Read by Jennifer Dorr |
The Story Of Tom Tit Tot | 9:29 | Read by Ellen Preckel |
The Peasant Story Of Napoleon | 36:37 | Read by Ellen Preckel |