Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment
10 best books like Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment (Marina Warner): Bird Girl & the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska, Black Swan, White Raven, The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World, The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales from Native North America, The Fairy Tales Of Madame d'Aulnoy, Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales, Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions, Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood, At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things, The Little Book of the Hidden People: Stories of elves from Icelandic folklore
Bird Girl & the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska
| Author | Velma Wallis |
| ISBN | 0945397348 |
In her spellbinding second book, the award-winning author interweaves two classic Athabaskan legends set in ancient central Alaska. This is the story of two rebels who break the strict taboos of their communal culture in their quests for freedom and adventure. Readers will be captivated by this profound...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0380975238 |
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...
| 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...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 1555915663 |
Of all the misconceptions and misunderstandings perpetuated about Native peoples, the role of women in traditional cultures is perhaps the most falsely portrayed. The image of the overworked 'squaw'...women as property to be bought, sold, or traded. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Native...
| Author | Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy |
| ISBN | 1410208311 |
CONTENTS Gracieuse and Percinet Fair Goldilocks The Blue Bird Prince Ariel Princess Mayblossom Princess Rosette The Golden Branch The Bee and the Orange Tree The Good Little Mouse The Ram Finette Cendron Fortun?e Babiole The Yellow Dwarf Green Serpent Princess Carpillon The Benevolent Frog The...
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0451526481 |
This is by and large the best anthology of "Beauty and the Beast" fairy tales out there, in my opinion, and I mean the original story that was conceived in the luxurious salons of the French nobility, not the countryside folktales of animal bridegrooms told by the peasantry, and definitely not retellings...
| Author | Howard Norman |
| ISBN | 0375702679 |
From Greenland to Siberia, from Alaska to Japan, from Canada to North Pole, here are more than one hundred folktales from more than thirty tribal peoples who make their home in the arctic and subarctic regions.By turns tragic and comic, fantastic and earthy, uncanny and profound, these tales transport...
| Author | Maria Tatar |
| ISBN | 0691000883 |
When fairy tales moved from workrooms, taverns, and the fireside into the nursery, they not only lost much of their irreverent, earthy humor but were also deprived of their contestatory stance to official culture. Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on producing...
| Author | Diane Purkiss |
| ISBN | 0814766838 |
At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society.
The pretty pastel world of gauzy-winged things who grant wishes...
The Little Book of the Hidden People: Stories of elves from Icelandic folklore
| Author | Alda Sigmundsdóttir |
| ISBN | 9935924882 |
Icelandic folklore is rife with tales of elves and hidden people that inhabited hills and rocks in the landscape. But what do those elf stories really tell us about the Iceland of old and the people who lived there? In this book, author Alda Sigmundsdóttir presents twenty translated elf stories from...
| Author | Angela Carter |
| ISBN | 1853814407 |
Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is The Virago Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales, hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries around the world. And no drippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead...
| Author | David Thomson |
| ISBN | 1582431841 |
Raised among Scottish fishermen and storytellers, David Thomson was obsessed from childhood by the Celtic seal legend, the body of tales and songs about the "selchie," or gray Atlantic seal. In the early 1950's he took a journey to seek the legend out, in the Hebrides, on the east coast of Scotland, on...
Myths That Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Classic Myths of All Times for Young People
| Author | Hamilton Wright Mabie |
Are you tired of getting bored of books or not being able to finish them because they are too long? Well this is the perfect book for you, it consists of ten different stories based on greek mythology. Stories like The Chimera, The Argonauts, and many more.
This book is a total of 10 ten stories...
It's the best fiction I've read or watched so far! In love with each detail each quote, a masterpiece ended my reading challenge! Couldn't ask for a better end! Ruby Sparks, sparked my heart!
My favorite quote by Calvin Weir-Fields:
This is the true and impossible story of my very great love....
