American Fairy Tales

10 best books like American Fairy Tales (L. Frank Baum): Indian Fairy Tales, Traditional Irish Fairy Tales, The Grey Fairy Book, English Fairy Tales, Japanese Fairy Tales, The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, Myths and Legends of China, Popular Tales from the Norse, Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland, Celtic Tales, Told to the Children

Indian Fairy Tales

Author

Joseph Jacobs

Stories included are:

The Lion and the Crane
How the Raja's Son Won the Princess Labam
The Lambikin
Punchkin
The Broken Pot
The Magic Fiddle
The Cruel Crane Outwitted
Loving Laili
The Tiger, the Brahman and the Jackel
The Soothsayer's Son
Harisaman
The...

Traditional Irish Fairy Tales

Author	James Stephens
ISBN	0486291669

'In truth we do not go to Faery, we become faery, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years.'

A good collection, very funny and with that uniquely Irish feel to it. And I should say that this is not so much a collection of Irish fairy tales as a collection of Irish sagas,...

The Grey Fairy Book

Author	Andrew Lang
ISBN	0486217914

It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of fairyland. The goat-faced girl, Prunella, the three sons of Hali, giants and dwarfs, monsters and magicians, fairies and ogres—these are the companions who thrill boys and girls of all lands and all...

English Fairy Tales

Author	Flora Annie Steel
ISBN	1853261335

This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different...

Japanese Fairy Tales

Author	Yei Theodora Ozaki
ISBN	4805308818

Things I learnt from Japanese Fairy Tales
-Never trust a monkey.
-Never trust a stepmother.
-Never trust a stepmother with your monkey.
-Almost every boy in Japan is named Taro, or a variant of that name: Kintaro, Urashima Taro, Momotaro...
-If an old man wants to wrestle your...

The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children

Author

Charles Kingsley

"I am Pallas Athena; and I know the thoughts of all men's hearts, and discern their manhood or their baseness. And from the souls of clay I turn away, and they are blessed, but not by me. They fatten at ease, like sheep in the pasture, and eat what they did not sow, like oxen in the stall. They grow and spread,...

Myths and Legends of China

Author

E.T.C. Werner

Edit: Jan.25

I've decided to change my original rating of 2 stars to 1.

I tried to read this again after downloading another free ebook of Chinese myths from the iBook store called The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Shan Hai Jing. The earliest accounts of some of the stories found in TCoMaS...

Popular Tales from the Norse

Author

George Webbe Dasent

Translated from Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe's collection. You may have heard of this particular collection; J.R.R. Tolkien cites it in "On Fairy-Stories." And you definitely know one tale: "The Three Billy-Goats Gruff."

There are a lot more here. Has some animal...

Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland

Author

W.W. Gibbings

I chose to read "The Fisherman and the Merman" folk-story out of this book. Like many other folk-stories this was at times hard to understand what was going on and was required to be read more than once. This story showed the very dark side that these types of stories can posses. This story says things like,...

Celtic Tales, Told to the Children

Author

Louey Chisholm

Title
Celtic Tales Told to the Children: The Starry-Eyed Deirdre

Author
Louey Chisholm

Illustrator
Catherine Cameron

Category
Traditional and ICDL

Copyright Date
1910

Estimate of age level of interest
Adult

Estimate...

Eskimo Folk-Tales

Author

Knud Rasmussen

THESE stories were collected in various parts of Greenland, taken down from the lips of the Eskimo story-tellers themselves, by Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer. No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Eskimo...

Welsh Fairy Tales

Author	William Elliot Griffis
ISBN	1151290572

The author of this retold collection of Welsh fairy tales was an American of Welsh ancestry. In his introduction he pointedly gives thanks to 'those inheritances from the world of imagination, for which the Cymric Land was famous, even before the days of either Anglo-Saxon or Norman.'

Griffis...

Japanese Children's Favorite Stories

Author

Florence Sakade

A nice collection of Japanese fairy tales, "Japanese Children's Favorite Stories" is nicely illustrated for young readers.

(And, at least in the case of the Romanian version, it's also adapted - there's a reference to Momotaro being sent by God to a childless elderly couple so he could be their...

Fairy Tales from the German Forests

Author

Margaret Arndt

[...] He saw that it was the mouth of the tunnel, and glancing up he saw the giant fir-tree under which he had been sleeping with outstretched arms above him in the light of the moon. "Well-I never! what a dunderhead I am!" he said to himself-"fancy sleeping like that, why such a thing has never happened to...

Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm

Author

Jacob Grimm

Coursera - Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World

Finished 1/2 the stories.

My essay:

The Clever Shall Inherit?

Throughout one’s reading of Grimm’s Household Tales, several familiar faces appear. However, these tales are interspersed...

Reader and Educator Guide to "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings"

Author

Harcourt

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are some of the most widely read and beloved books of the twentieth century. In December 2012, the man who brought J.R.R. Tolkien’s magical worlds to life with The Lord of the Rings movies, Peter Jackson, will release the first of three film adaptations of The Hobbit,...

The Land of the Blue Flower

Author	Frances Hodgson Burnett
ISBN	1594623775

It seems like there are some good lessons in this tale, but unfortunately they were hard to pick out between the archaic wordage and the dull reading of the audiobook I borrowed. I think the audiobook was a free undertaking, so someone not trained in reading books did so and her voice was regrettably soporific...