A retelling of eleven animal folktales, includes The crocodile and the jackal, The coyote and the ravens, The turkey girl, and The impudent little bird.
The Violet Fairy Book (Throne Classics) (Golden Classics, #64)
by Andrew Lang
The stories in this Violet Fairy Book, as in all the others of the series, have been translated out of the popular traditional tales in a number of different languages. These stories are as old as anything that men have invented. They are narrated by naked savage women to naked savage children. They have been inherited by our earliest civilised ancestors, who really believed that beasts and trees and stones can talk if they choose, and behave kindly or unkindly. The stories are full of the oldes...
The Fairy of Masara (Mandaya and Mansaka Tales, #3)
by Vilma M Fuentes
Aladdin outwits an evil magician who first tries to trick him into handing over an old lamp with a genie inside and later steals Aladdin's wife and possessions.
The Moral of the Story (World Storytelling from August House)
by Bobby Norfolk and Sherry Norfolk
Each day the gypsy walks with the sea on his right and the mountains on his left, and each night he rests and plays his lute. Four beautiful animals - the lion, the grey Ibis, the scorpion and the viper snake hide in the shadows and listen to him play. One morning he doesn't wake up - how can the animals save the life of the gypsy whose music they love?
The Lady of the Shroud (Alan Rodgers Books) (Desert Island Dracula Library S.)
by Bram Stoker
Set in the early nineteenth century, Brams fiction The Lady of the Shroud is full of mystical and super-natural elements. A brilliant presentation of a lady who appears always in a shroud, this work engrosses the readers. The Balkan lands are presented and a slight political touch is also given towards the end. Mesmerizing!
Japanese Fairy Tales (Akasha Classics ) (Cosimo Classics Myth & Folklore)
by Yei Theodora Ozaki
This colorfully illustrated multicultural children's book presents Japanese fairy tales and other folk stories--providing insight into a rich literary culture. The rich world of Japanese fantasy is very apparent in Japanese Fairy Tales, a compilation of twenty-two favorite stories from the land of the rising sun. A fantastic selection of ghouls, goblins and ogres, sea serpents and sea kings, kindly animals and magic birds, demons and dragons, princes and princesses hide within these pages. These...
Cinderella (Classics Illustrated Junior, #3) (Fairy Tales)
by Charles Perrault
In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper. The illustrations set the story in 1920s London.