English Fairy Tales

10 best books like English Fairy Tales (Joseph Jacobs): American Fairy Tales, Traditional Irish Fairy Tales, The Brown Fairy Book, 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, Welsh Fairy 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...

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 Brown Fairy Book

Author	Andrew Lang
ISBN	0486214389

This one fares farther than the earlier ones, with a lot more from North America, Iceland, Egypt, etc. and fewer from Europe -- not that that doesn't demonstrate how the forms of stories can last. "The Sister of the Sun" and "The King Who Would Be Stronger than Fate" in particular are charming versions...

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

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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...

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...

Darkin: A Journey East

Author

Joseph A. Turkot

ASIN B00902HZZ2 moved to the more recent edition here and then here

The greatest dark wizard, long thought dead, has risen anew; in his wake marches the vast army of the Feral Brood. None could have foreseen the total evil set to descend upon Darkin.

A long age of peace has left the land...

Chasing the Bard

Author	Philippa Ballantine
ISBN	1896944175

Born into the human world with a gift; a gift that brings him to the attention of powers both dark and light from the World of the Fey, it is his burden to defend all the world.

Sive, the goddess of battle, hopes that he may be able to change the fate of her people.The Fey are dying, killed by something...

Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady

Author	Selina Shirley Hastings
ISBN	0744507804

Riding out in Inglewood one day, King Arthur encounters the sinister Black Knight, who challenges him to a battle for his very crown. With his sword Excalibur lying far away in Camelot, Arthur is rendered immobile by his foe's unearthly power, and given one chance to redeem himself: if he returns in three...