The Tiger's Whisker, and Other Tales from Asia and the Pacific
by Harold Courlander
Thirty-one folk tales from Asia, the Middle East, and islands in the Pacific with a section of notes on each story at the end of the book..
Stories to Stir the Imagination (Stories to Stir the Imagination, #2)
In this retelling of the Alice in Wonderland story set in aboriginal Australia, the white rabbit becomes a white kangaroo and the red queen is a witch spirit.
Captivating and Enchanting A small anthology of Bedtime Stories suitable for young children incorporates five different tales - how Rudolph the reindeer acquired his shiny red nose, how the rose became different colours, how earth first received rain millions of years ago, how the poor swallow bird ended up with only two tail feathers and, finally, the mystique of the Christmas tree.
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...