Celtic Tales, Told to the Children
10 best books like Celtic Tales, Told to the Children (Louey Chisholm): American Fairy Tales, Indian Fairy Tales, Traditional Irish Fairy Tales, The Lilac Fairy Book, Japanese Fairy Tales, The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, Myths and Legends of China, Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland, The Ice-Maiden and Other Tales, Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights
| Author | L. Frank Baum |
| ISBN | 0486236439 |
In Chicago, an ordinary key unlocks a magical trunk packed with robbers and a pie. In Boston, five magical bon-bons make an ordinary senator, an ordinary professor, an ordinary girl and her ordinary parents do the most extraordinary things! A young cowboy lassoes Father Time; the dummy in Mr. Floman's...
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...
| 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,...
| Author | Andrew Lang |
| ISBN | 0486219070 |
About 2, maybe 3? years ago, I set myself the goal of reading all the color fairy tale collections edited by Andrew Lang. I vaguely remembered reading some of them when I was in elementary school, but I don't recall too many of the stories.
I was inspired to do this by Robin McKinley, who is one of...
| 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...
"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,...
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...
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,...
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
The Ice Maiden rules the cold snowcapped mountains of Switzerland. Before Rudy was a year old, the Ice Maiden claimed his father into the icy depths of the mountains -- and now she wants Rudy too. The precocious little boy must now do everything in his power to resist the lure of the Ice Maiden . . . and escape...
Fairy Tales From The Arabian Nights by E. Dixon / 1893
Penerbit: PT. Elex Media Komputindo @elexmedia / 2018
ISBN : 978-602-04-8592-8 / 305 halaman ====
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Ahhh.. Dibaca selambat apa pun, pasti sampai juga di akhir halaman. .
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...
| Author | Charles John Tibbits |
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| 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...
[...] 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...
| 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...
Zen was uniquely suited to the Samurai of Japan. The high moral principles of Buddhism, when adopted and adapted by the Japanese warriors who became the Samurai, created an austere philosophy of singular beauty and depth. Its characteristic requirements of strict control over body and mind was exemplified...
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
| Author | Emma Thompson |
| ISBN | 1408805014 |
I really liked the story. I was aware of who Emma Thompson is, of course. I’ve seen the Nanny McPhee movies. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the book. The book is divided into chapters that alternate between being the story and being a diary that Emma keeps while on set. Emma is utterly honest. Grumpy...
The Religion of the Ancient Celts
| Author | John Arnott MacCulloch |
The Pros and Cons of the Book:
The Cons:
1. The book was not intended for the beginner. Most of the time the author assumes you know what and who he is talking about.
2. It was written at an early stage when not a lot of archeological sites were found about the Celts.
3. Some of the information...
Legends of the Egyptian Gods: Hieroglyphic Texts and Translations
| Author | E.A. Wallis Budge |
| ISBN | 0486280225 |
Former Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was one of the great Egyptologists of the century and author of a host of books on ancient Egypt. For this collection, he carefully selected nine of the most interesting and important Egyptian legends...
