Legends & Fairy Tales
Old Fashioned Fairy Tales
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Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
Ogres, hillmen, and both fairies and fools abound by forest and town in this book by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing. Designed to cultivate imag…
Metamorphoses
Read by Peter Tucker
Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…
Cocoa Break Collection
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Various
Following in the vein of my Coffee-Break collections, this is a collection of short (all under 15 minutes) stories for kids. Focus is on fab…
The Fairy Spinning Wheel and the Tales it spun
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Catulle Mendès
This is a little volume of old-fashioned fairy tales, collected and rewritten by Catulle Mendès and translated from the French and ad…
Myths and Legends Around the World
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
The Silver Princess in Oz
Read by Phil Chenevert
Ruth Plumly Thompson
Another Oz book! Yes! Lots of unlikely characters and tons of fun. In this story, young King Randy of Regalia is visited by his old frien…
Jewish Fairy Tales and Fables
Read by NoelBadrian
Gertrude Landa
Gertrude Landa or rather, Hannah Gittel (Annie Gertrude) Landa nee Gordon wrote under the pen-name of Aunt Naomi. The stories that she relat…
The Blue Bird
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Maurice Maeterlinck
The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. On the night of Christmas a boy and a girl, Tyltil and Mytil, are visite…
The Maker of Rainbows
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Richard Le Gallienne
A collection of Fairy Tales from Richard Le Gallienne.
Folk-lore and Legends
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Charles John Tibbits
The East is rich in Folklore, and the lorist is not troubled to discover material, but to select only that which it is best worth his while …
Old-Fashioned Tales
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Variousandwilliam Patten and Various And William Patten
This collection of The Junior Classics is compiled from many wonderful authors including Alcott, Dickens, Hawthorne, and Carroll. The storie…
The Singing Mouse Stories
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Emerson Hough
The singing mouse tells tales of nature in songs. This book is for those who want to know how the mountains ate up the plains, what the wate…
The White People
Read by Anne Fletcher
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A young girl living in remote Scotland discovers she has a unique gift for seeing what others cannot. This ultimately hopeful and positive s…
The Wind Boy
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Ethel Cook Eliot
A gentle, otherworldly novel featuring the mysterious “girl from the mountains” who aides a refugee family in a most unexpected way. Mystica…
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
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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 Crocodile
Read by Phillip Cryan
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoevesky's "The Crocodile," first published in 1865 in the magazine "Epoch," is the story of Ivan Matveitch, a…
Legend Land
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Lyonesse
"Being a collection of some of the OLD TALES told in those Western Parts of Britain served by the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, now retold by …
The Ghosts' High Noon
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W. S. Gilbert
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Ghosts' High Noon by W. S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry HALLOWE'EN project for Oct…
Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Jean de la Fontaine
This is a short book which collects together 18 charming fables, written in rhyme and intended to be enjoyed by children. Based on stories w…
The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales
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Frank R. Stockton
This is a collection of original and interesting fairy tales. We have here princes and princesses, pirates, wizards, and all the other ingre…