Myths
Cossack Fairy Tales
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Robert Nisbet Bain
This is a volume of fairy tales and folk tales from the Cossack people, compiled and translated by Robert Nisbet Bain. The tales are special…
Rootabaga Stories
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Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a s…
Alice in Wonderland, Retold in Words of One Syllable
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J.C. Gorham
The well known and delightful tale of Alice in Wonderland but retold in simpler language. All the characters are there, even the Cheshire C…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 006
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 006: a collection of 11 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen
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Hans Christian Andersen
This is a 1910 edition of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. This volume is nicely mixed, containing both the most famous tales as …
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
This is the second book in a twelve volume series, and highlights myths and legendary heroes from around the world, from Ancient Greece to S…
Twilight Land
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Howard Pyle
The room was all full of twilight; but there they sat, every one of them. I did not count them, but there were ever so many: Aladdin, and Al…
Zanzibar Tales
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George W. Bateman
If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are gifted with th…
More English Fairy Tales
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Joseph Jacobs
"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have be…
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 01
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. Appropriate stories tell of …
Children's Short Works, Vol. 002
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Various
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 002: a collection of 10 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Fairy Tales from Brazil
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Elsie Spicer Eells
This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths…
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty chil…
The Enchanted Castle: Fairy Tales from Flowerland
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Hartwell James and Howard E. Altemus
Every boy and girl—and for that matter every man and woman, too—rejoices when the winter snows have vanished and the earth once more puts on…
Mother’s Nursery Tales
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Katharine Pyle
Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like…
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
This wonderful children’s short story tells all about the youth, manhood and old age of Santa Claus and how he became immortal. (Introductio…
The Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud
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Frances Jenkins Olcott
Lots of stories and poems about elves, faeries and other wonderful wee folk. All read for you by LibriVox people who love them so what more …
A New Alice in the Old Wonderland
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Anna Matlack Richards
In this unofficial sequel to Alice in Wonderland, a different Alice, a young American girl named Alice Lee (a huge fan of the original book)…
The Magical Mimics in Oz
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Jack Snow
The land of OZ is the happiest fairyland anywhere, but there are evil creatures whose only ambition is to destroy that happiness. Lurking i…
Stories from the Faerie Queene
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Mary Macleod
The object of this volume is to excite interest in one of the greatest poems of English literature, which for all its greatness is but littl…