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Best-Loved Folktales of the World

10 best books like Best-Loved Folktales of the World (Joanna Cole): African Folktales, Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales, Favorite Folktales from Around the World, Irish Folk Tales, Japanese Tales, The Fall of Camelot, Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales, The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales, Grimm's Grimmest, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales

African Folktales
AuthorRoger D. Abrahams
Just like the others, I really enjoyed the tales, but not the commentary, which seemed excessive, superficial and a justification for the white scientist to have his name on the cover. Also, the grouping was weird (I would prefer by tribe), and the pictures of art objects seemed to be attached to fairy...
Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales
AuthorGordon Jarvie
ISBN0140622063
This tiny little thing of a book is adorable!

Firstly I adored the graphic representation of the Scottish accent - “aboot” (about), “leddy” (lady), “oot” (out), “ain” (one), “banes” (bones), and so many others -, I believe it added a feeling of hearing the story directly...
Favorite Folktales from Around the World
AuthorJane Yolen
Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folktales from Around the World (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) (1986).
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The Iroquois story of "The Flying Head" tells the folktale of a giant head with wings that came out of its cheeks and a mouth full of fangs. This giant head would fly at night looking...
Irish Folk Tales
AuthorHenry Glassie
Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild Gaelic...
Japanese Tales
AuthorRoyall Tyler
Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these...
The Fall of Camelot
AuthorTime-Life Books
A stand alone book in the brilliant Enchanted World Series, THE FALL OF CAMELOT is written in a somber but engaging, highly readable tone, and beautifully illustrated. A concise, single volume retelling of the King Arthur saga, the book does a good job of remaining focused on the principals conflicts...
Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales
AuthorJack D. Zipes
ISBN0451526481
This is by and large the best anthology of "Beauty and the Beast" fairy tales out there, in my opinion, and I mean the original story that was conceived in the luxurious salons of the French nobility, not the countryside folktales of animal bridegrooms told by the peasantry, and definitely not retellings...
The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
AuthorLafcadio Hearn
ISBN0486403483
A talking tea kettle, a monstrous goblin-spider that lives in a haunted temple, miniature soldiers that plague a lazy young bride, and other fanciful creatures abound in this captivating collection of eleven Japanese fairy tales.
Youngsters are transported to an exotic, faraway world of samurai...
Grimm's Grimmest
AuthorJacob Grimm
ISBN0811816753
Murder, kidnapping, cruel punishment, and violent revenge -- these are not the bedtime stories mummy used to read. Grimm's Grimmest presents nineteen of the original, unsanitized, unholy tales as they were first collected by the Brothers Grimm -- all fiendishly illustrated in full color. Grimm's...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
AuthorKate Bernheimer
ISBN0385486812
New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.

Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight...
Spells and Bindings
AuthorTristram Potter Coffin
ISBN0809452413
In the mid-eighties I saw television ads for this series and brought them not so subtly to my parents’ attention, without result. They dismissed it as not worth the money. Twenty-five years later I found this volume in a garage sale and greedily snapped it up for a buck.

I anticipated a delving...
Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
AuthorKathleen Ragan
ISBN0393320464
Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and...
The Dark of the Woods
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0760782776
Twenty-one award-winning fantasy and science fiction writers have transformed traditional fairy tales and legends—including Snow White, Cinderella, Ali Baba, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, and many more—into stories that are completely original, yet still...
Folk and Fairy Tales
AuthorMartin Hallett
This anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 52 stories from a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by theme or juxtapose variations of individual tales, inviting comparison and analysis across cultures and genres. An accessible section of critical...
The Book of Christmas
AuthorBrendan Lehane
ISBN0809452618
This book is featured on Shabby Sunday and you can see my full review including pictures @ https://readrantrockandroll.com/2018/...

I started collecting the books in this series early last year and I still have four more to collect. I've enjoyed a few while others weren't favorites. I wanted...
The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm
AuthorMaria Tatar
ISBN0393338568
Even after two hundred years, the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm remain among our most powerful stories. Their scenes of unsparing savagery and jaw-dropping beauty remind us that fairy tales, in all their simplicity, have the power to change us. With some of the most famous stories in world literature,...
Princeless Short Stories Volume 1
AuthorJeremy Whitley
ISBN1939352495
The first-ever collected edition of Princeless short stories is finally available from Action Lab! Want to know more about Bedelia Smith? Curious about what happens to Prince Wilcome after King Ashe throws him in jail? Want to spend more time with the Princesses Ashe? Get all this and more from a variety...
The Rose Fairy Book
AuthorAndrew Lang
Rose Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. (This volume is made up of selections from the Grey, Brown, Pink, Lilac and Orange Fairy Books, the stories therefrom that came from France, Italy or Spain.) Bear Bobino Castle of Kerglas Donkey Skin False Prince and the True Father Grumbler Fortunate and his Purse Frog...
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