Indian Fairy Tales

10 best books like Indian Fairy Tales (Joseph Jacobs): American Fairy Tales, Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies, Traditional Irish Fairy Tales, The Crimson Fairy Book, The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World, English Fairy Tales, Japanese Fairy Tales, The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, Popular Tales from the Norse, Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland

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...

Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies

Author

Moss Roberts

Quite a treasury. I liked the numerous short fables even better than the stories. And the introduction, that gives just a bit of historical context, esp. re the rivalry between the Confucians and the Taoists, is helpful.

My favorite is one of the very shortest:

"The Missing Axe

"A...

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 Crimson Fairy Book

Author

Andrew Lang

It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of fairyland. Princes and princesses, kings and queens, giants and dwarfs, monsters and magicians, fairies and ogres — these are the companions who thrill young boys and girls of all lands and all times,...

The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World

Author	Ethel Johnston Phelps
ISBN	0805006796

The Maid of the North weaves together tales about a woman's right to freedom of will and choice. In this collection of mostly nineteenth-century folk and fairy tales, Ethel Johnston Phelps's heroines successfully portray women as being spirited, courageous and smart. This type of heroine is not easily...

English Fairy Tales

Author	Flora Annie Steel
ISBN	1853261335

This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different...

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,...

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...

Old French Fairy Tales

Author	Comtesse de Ségur
ISBN	1410105695

CONTENTS Blondine, Bonne-Biche, and Beau-Minon Blondine; Blondine Lost; The Forest of Lilacs; Blondine's Awakening - Beau-Minon; Bonne-Biche; Blondine's Second Awakening; The Parrot; Repentance; The Tortoise; The Journey and Arrival Good Little Henry The Poor Sick Mother; The Crow, the Cock,...

Ukrainian Folk Tales

Author

Unknown

Contents: Nibbly-Quibbly the Goat / The Magic Mitten / The Little Round Bun / Sister Fox and Brother Wolf / The Little Straw Bull with the Tarred Back / The Cat and the Cock / Sir Cat-o-Puss / The Fox and the Bear / How the Dog Found Himself a Master / The Fox and the Crane / Why the Stork Eats Frogs and the Wolf Hunts...

True Irish Ghost Stories

Author

St. John D. Seymour

"There are more things in heaven and in earth, Horatio," Shakespeare has Hamlet observe to his skeptical friend (who dismisses the possibility of a ghostly apparition) than are dreamt of in your philosophy!" That might be a good epigraph for this collection. Assembled by amateur researchers of the...