Great Swedish Fairy Tales
10 best books like Great Swedish Fairy Tales (Elsa Olenius): Peter in Blueberry Land, Flower Fables, Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas, Helga's Dowry: A Troll Love Story, Eskimo Folk-Tales, Scandinavian Folk & Fairy Tales: Tales From Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland & Iceland, Japanese Children's Favorite Stories, Fairy Tales from the German Forests, A Field Guide to the Little People, More Celtic Fairy Tales
| Author | Elsa Beskow |
| ISBN | 0863154980 |
Like with the vast majority of Floris Books of Edinburgh's editions that feature so-called translations, that present English language renderings of classical continental Western European children's literature picture books, Elsa Beskow's Peter in Blueberry Land (the original 1901 Swedish...
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 1930142021 |
Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott Flower Fables contains wildly imaginative stories that grew out of Alcott's experience as a storyteller to the children of her Concord, Connecticut, neighbors. Through these enticing encounters with fairies, elves, and animals, the author creates a foundation...
Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas
| Author | Aurora Levins Morales |
| ISBN | 0896086445 |
Full of medical folklore and healing tales, Remedios presents the history of the many women—and cultures—who have met at the crossroads of the islands of Puerto Rico. Beginning with the First Mother in sub-Saharan Africa more than 200,000 years ago, Aurora Levins Morales takes readers on a journey...
Helga's Dowry: A Troll Love Story
| Author | Tomie dePaola |
| ISBN | 0156400103 |
I have always been a huge fan of Tomie dePaola’s works ever since I was a child, with my favorites being of his “Strega Nona” stories (favorites from this series are “Strega Nona” and “Strega Nona’s Magic Lessons”). Now I have stumbled upon a new book I have read from Tomie dePaola called...
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 | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0517436205 |
I hate to say that these were really disappointing :(
(There was literally only ONE story about vikings in this whole book!)
Also worth noting, is that these tales are heavily influenced by early christian views of the Scandinavian countries, rather than the pantheon of norse gods and goddesses....
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...
[...] 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 | Nancy Arrowsmith |
| ISBN | 0671790366 |
In high summer meadows, nestled in the moors, near old castles, or behind the kitchen stove--these are the places where the Little People may be found. Make the acquaintance of White Ladies and Red Caps, Church Grims and Hobgoblins, English Fairies, Leprechauns, Sirens, Hey-Hey Men, and all of their...
| Author | Joseph Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1605061999 |
More Celtic Fairy Tales is part of a series written by the Australian born folklorist Joseph Jacobs. In this book feature over two dozen stories taken from popular oral tradition and united with John D. Batten's black and white drawings, full of movement and energy. Many of the earliest children's books,...
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0140127836 |
"Spells of Enchantment" brings together the best literary fairy tales ever written, arranged to provide a sense of the history and evolution of this ancient genre. Focusing on the work of the most gifted writers of the great Western literary movements from classical times to the present, Jack Zipes's...
| Author | Emily Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0806906359 |
Features more than 35 of Dickinson's best loved poems, including "I'm nobody, who are you?" and "I started early, took my dog." "The choice of...Emily Dickinson is a good one....Chi Chung's illustrations...are precise and sometimes whimsical....Attractive and inviting....will give young readers...
| Author | Katharine M. Briggs |
| ISBN | 0394508068 |
Katharine Briggs took her fairies seriously. She was a folklore scholar, with several Oxford degrees, and did not think fairy tales were strictly the province of children. The tales she liked were those handed down over generations by people who believed in them, as opposed to the ones “made up as...
| Author | Sven Nordqvist |
| ISBN | 3789143073 |
Man soll nie zu viel versprechen. Sonst geht es einem am Ende wie dem alten Pettersson. Seit der seinem Kater nämlich vom Weihnachtsmann erzählt hat, hat Findus nur noch einen Wunsch: dass der Weihnachtsmann auch zu ihm kommt. Klar, dass Pettersson ihn nicht enttäuschen möchte. Im Tischlerschuppen...
| Author | Jay Williams |
| ISBN | 0590557866 |
I bought this book in the early 1980's so that my new born daughter would have a different kind of fairy tale for me to read to her and her to read later on her own.
It's full of royal women who can think, act and rescue not just themselves, but sometimes the hapless Prince.
We also read "regular" fairy...
English Fairy Tales and Legends
| Author | Rosalind Kerven |
| ISBN | 1905400659 |
The stories that many children grown up with are very international—for example Snow White is German, Cinderella is French, and Aladdin is Arabian. Folk tales and legends are an intrinsic part of English national culture—so which are the fairy tales from England? Rosalind Kerven presents...
| Author | John Bauer |
| ISBN | 0863154573 |
John Bauer's original, evocative illustrations bring these classic Swedish folk tales to life. This collection includes Elsa Beskow's "When Mother Troll Took in the King's Washing"; "The Magician's Cape" by Anna Wahlenberg; "The Seven Wishes" by Alfred Smedberg; "The Ring" by Helena Nyblom; "Stalo...
| Author | Astrid Lindgren |
| ISBN | 9789129657 |
"För länge sen, i fattigdomens dagar ..." Så börjar var och en av de vackra sagorna i denna bok. Det är Sunnanäng (på engelska The Red Bird) som berättar om de två små syskonen Anna och Mattias. De blev ensamma i världen och fick slita ont hos bonden i Myra. Det är Spelar min lind, sjunger min...
| Author | Johan Egerkrans |
| ISBN | 9132161433 |
De går under många namn de osynliga, oknytt, skrömt, de övernaturliga. De antar många former och de lockar, förför och förgör.
Nordens mörka skogar, djupa sjöar och höga berg hyser en mängd mytiska varelser. Vi ser dem inte om de inte väljer att visa sig, men de gör sig ständigt...
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
This is from my childhood! I didn't recognize the cover but one cannot forge memories of items stored by someone else for 30 years! By my teens, I maintained my belongings. It turns out my parents kept two boxes of books, of which I was unaware. I am glad to have these too. What a treat pouring over them, seeing...
| Author | Bengt Ohlsson |
| ISBN | 1846270162 |
Description: Bengt Ohlsson, one of Sweden’s most successful young writers, has responded to the classic Doctor Glas with Gregorius, which is the voice of Pastor Gregorius over the course of what could be his last and fateful summer. Gregorius is a rancorous, malodorous, and unattractive figure...
