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10 best books like The Orange Fairy Book (Andrew Lang): Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales, Indian Fairy Tales, Tanglewood Tales: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Favorite Folktales from Around the World, Black Swan, White Raven, The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World, The World's Best Fairy Tales, English Fairy Tales, Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness

Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales
AuthorGordon Jarvie
ISBN0140622063
This tiny little thing of a book is adorable!

Firstly I adored the graphic representation of the Scottish accent - “aboot” (about), “leddy” (lady), “oot” (out), “ain” (one), “banes” (bones), and so many others -, I believe it added a feeling of hearing the story directly...
Indian Fairy Tales
AuthorJoseph 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...
Tanglewood Tales: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN1402166516
1853. Hawthorne wrote these stories for children based on Greek myth and legend. They are incomparable retellings of themes which the Greek dramatists used in creating their immortal plays and literature. Contents: The Gorgon's Head; The Golden Touch; The Paradise of Children; The Three Golden...
Favorite Folktales from Around the World
AuthorJane Yolen
Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folktales from Around the World (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) (1986).
Hero
The Iroquois story of "The Flying Head" tells the folktale of a giant head with wings that came out of its cheeks and a mouth full of fangs. This giant head would fly at night looking...
Black Swan, White Raven
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0380975238
In their fourth collection of original adult fairy tales written by some of the premier names in literature today, World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling transport readers deep into an enchanted forest with a stunning array of magical stories - bringing us the princes...
The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World
AuthorEthel Johnston Phelps
ISBN0805006796
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...
The World's Best Fairy Tales
AuthorBelle Becker Sideman
ISBN0895770784
Contents
Jorinda and Joringel
Puss in Boots
The Emperor's New Clothes
Billy Beg and His Bull
Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes
The Red Shoes
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Snegourka, the Snow Maiden
The Three Little Pigs
The Shoemaker and...
English Fairy Tales
AuthorFlora Annie Steel
ISBN1853261335
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...
Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales
AuthorTasha Tudor
ISBN0448442000
Many of the classic fairy tales are included in this wonderful compilation; including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Thumbelina, Rumpelstiltskin, The Emperor's New Clothes and a few others, some not as well known.

Each page is decorated with lovely painted borders...
Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
AuthorCarole G. Silver
ISBN0195121996
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources...
Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
AuthorNina Auerbach
ISBN0226032043
As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling...
Irish Folk and Fairy Tales Omnibus Edition
AuthorMichael Scott
ISBN0751508861
This summer I picked up a book called, Irish Folk and Fairy Tales Omnibus by Michael Scott, from Dublin Ireland. This book compiled 17 Irish folk tales into one. It caught my attention because the first three stories are about the sorrows of Irish storytelling. It takes upon various tales and roles them...
Meeting the Other Crowd
AuthorEddie Lenihan
ISBN0717136590
The Other Crowd', 'The Good People', 'The Wee Folk' and 'Them' are a few of the names given to the fairies by people in Ireland. Honoured for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect both the world we live in and forces we cannot see.

In Meeting the Other Crowd, Eddie...
Welsh Fairy Tales
AuthorWilliam Elliot Griffis
ISBN1151290572
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...
Folk-Tales of the British Isles
AuthorKevin Crossley-Holland
ISBN0394755537
A miscellaneous collection. Tales of fairies, fairy tales, ghost stories, tales of heroes, legends, jocular tales. . . .

If you are looking for one of those types, you may have to read through them all, because they are organized by themes that sometimes cross them. Some are literary -- we have...
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
AuthorMarie-Louise von Franz
ISBN0877735263
Of the various types of mythological literature, fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Every people or nation has its own way of experiencing this psychic reality, and...
The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
AuthorMaria Tatar
ISBN0393051633
I usually love the Norton Annotated books, but this one was a disappointment. The first let-down was that Tatar also annotated The Annotated Brothers Grimm and The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, and many of the same fairy tales -- with the same or nearly the same annotations -- are included here....
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
AuthorJack D. Zipes
ISBN0140127836
"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...
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