Myths
The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter
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Pádraic Colum
King Manus ruled over the Western Island, and he had a castle that was neither higher nor wider than any other King’s castle. But he had a s…
The Desert
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Mathilde Blind
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Desert by Mathilde Blind. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 10th, 2010.
South African Folk-Tales
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James A. Honeÿ
James Albert Honeij (Honey) has collected a variety of South African folktales from previously published sources in English translation, to …
Fairy Tales from Gold Lands Volume Two
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May Wentworth
High as the clouds are the mountains boldThat tower in the glorious Land of Gold,And cañons dusky with twilight deepWhere a thousand …
The Book of Nature Myths (Version 2)
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Florence Holbrook
These delightful stories about how natural things began are drawn from the early folk-lore of many races. The wonderful explanations of the…
The Enchanted Castle (Version 2)
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E. Nesbit
The Enchanted Castle follows the adventures of Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen, three children who stumble upon a mysterious hidden castle with a …
Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children
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Mary Esther Miller Macgregor
Dear Denis,—Here is a story that I found in an old German poem called the Nibelungenlied. The poem is full of strange adventure, adventure o…
Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees
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Johnny Gruelle
Raggedy Ann, you remember, always thought lovely kindly thoughts because there was a little candy heart with the words "I love you"…
Favorite Fairy Tales (Version 2)
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Logan Marshall
Love fairy tales? We all do, and here are some of our "Favorite Fairy Tales." Come join us to the land of China to hear the story …
The Christmas Reindeer (Version 2)
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Thornton W. Burgess
This story follows a young brother and sister who grow up herding reindeer and then discover how the Western story of Santa Claus fits in wi…
Lore of Proserpine
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Maurice Henry Hewlett
If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one…
The Turquoise Story Book: Stories and Legends of Summer and Nature
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Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner
A book compiling stories, legends, and poems about summer and nature, piquing reader's interests by appealing to the reader's fancy, quicken…
Tales from Silver Lands
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Charles Finger
The 1925 Newbery Medal Winner for best children's literature published in the United States, this collection of Central and South American i…
Solario the Tailor
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William Bowen
Told over six nights, this children's fantasy has all the elements of a good bedtime story: princes and princesses, unicorns, sorcerers and …
Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound
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William Robert Spencer
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound by William Robert Spencer. This was the Fort…
The Worshipper of the Image
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Richard Le Gallienne
"The Worshipper of the Image," by Richard Le Galliene first published in 1900. The protagonist Antony, a poet buys a death mask i…
A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children (Version 2)
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E. Louise Smythe
"This book originated in a series of little reading lessons prepared for the first grade pupils in the Santa Rosa public schools. The o…
The Wishing Horse of Oz (Version 2)
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
The magical kingdom of Oz is happily doing all the wonderful things it does in peace and happiness, not knowing that a far off evil and gras…
Black Tales for White Children
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Nancy Stigand and Chauncey Hugh Stigand
Chauncey Hugh Stigand wrote this book of 29 East African folktales together with his wife, Nancy Stigand. Stigard was an officer in the Brit…
The Enchanted Forest
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William Bowen
If you have listened to (or read) Solario the Tailor on Librivox you know that collection of stories is the second a two volume set of remar…