Free Fairytales, Folk Tales, and Play Scripts - all with positive messages for kids! Courtesy of the friendly Whootie Owl. Stories are "Kid-tested" before a live audience to ensure the tales will delight kids while nourishing their hearts and minds. Illustrated by children.

Folklore and Legends will take you on an exciting journey through time and tale! Not just with the gods and goddesses but also with the some of living things from mythology like flowers animals water things that are still with us today! - Literature World Cultures ...

Marvels & Tales is a peer-reviewed journal of fairy-tale studies. International and multidisciplinary in orientation, the journal publishes scholarly work dealing with the fairy tale in any of its diverse manifestations and contexts.

World tales retold by award-winning author Aaron Shepard, plus some originals.

Stories from the Thousand and One Nights. 1909 ...

The Frog King by the Grimm Brothers In olden times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face. Close by the king's castle lay a great dark forest, and under an old lime-tree in the forest was a well, and when the day was very warm, ...

Old Norwegian fairy tales and some more tales.

Newfoundland and Labrador E-zine ...

Rumpelstilzchen by the Grimm Bothers Once there was a miller who was poor, but who had a beautiful daughter. Now it happened that he had to go and speak to the king, and in order to make himself appear important he said to him, I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold. The king said to the miller, that is an art which pleases me well, if your daughter is as clever as you say, bring her ...

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The Arabian Nights Introduction This is the original translation of the Arabian Nights into English, made by Sir Richard Francis Burton. I first got interested in the Nights when they were mentioned en passant by Arno Schmidt; some time later, the person of Richard Francis Burton was driven into my consciousness by being resurrected in P.J. Farmer`s ``Riverworld''. A few years ago, I worked ...

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Looking for an adventure or short story for children Read various fairy or folk tales including Ali Baba, Mother Goose, Robinson Crusoe...These versions have pictures and come right out of a children story book ...

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde HIGH above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt. He was very much admired indeed. `He is as beautiful as a weathercock, ' remarked one of the Town Councillors who wished to gain a reputation for ...

Last Update: Nov. 21, 1998 Navigation: Main Menu Index of Tales THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE Truth is stranger than fiction. OLD SAYING. HAVING had occasion, lately, in the course of some Oriental investigations, to consult the Tellmenow Isitsoornot, a work which (like the Zohar of Simeon Jochaides) is scarcely known at all, even in Europe; and which has never been quoted, to my ...