Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks

10 best books like Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks (William Elliot Griffis): American Fairy Tales, Indian Fairy Tales, Traditional Irish Fairy Tales, The Grey Fairy Book, Japanese Fairy Tales, The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, Myths and Legends of China, Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland, Celtic Tales, Told to the Children, The Ice-Maiden and Other Tales

American Fairy Tales

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Ice-Maiden and Other Tales

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

Author

E. Dixon

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. .

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...

Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian

Author

Charles John Tibbits

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Author	Jackie Chanel
ISBN	1460934156

For some, music is an escape from the everyday norm. For Aiden, it's his life's blood.
From the moment he played his first guitar chord, Aiden see life for what it really is all about...the possibilities. Consumed by his belief that his God-given talent will take further than the "right thing" ever...

The Vanishing

Author

Ruth Ann Nordin

In one moment, aliens make their presence known. In one moment, millions disappear. Autumn Daniel's sister is one of those who vanishes. Unable to rest, she joins Alex Cameron to find her. But she's about to find out that things are more sinister than she believes. This science fiction thriller is the...

What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War

Author

H.G. Wells

H G Wells, the prominent British writer of early 20th Century, turns out to become a prophet in this book, prophesying and forecasting the future of Great Britain and other countries that are just about to enter into the Second World War.
This book comes out just at the time when the Allied Forces of...

The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems

Author	Aldous Huxley
ISBN	0981860400

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published...