Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Florence Holbrook - Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades

Despite the title's bland sounding name, this book is a charming collection of 16 plays for children. These little plays—well-known stories done into dialogue—were written for children who like to imagine themselves...

2 hours 43 minutes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust II

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly...

7 hours 21 minutes

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Walter De la Mare - Three Mulla-mulgars

Three monkey brothers, Thumb, Thimble, and Nod, are Mulla-mulgars or royal monkeys. As she dies, their mother gives them the enchanted Wonderstone for protection, and tells them to follow their father. They embark on...

Amy Gramour and 2 more 7 hours 18 minutes

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L. Frank Baum - Mother Goose in Prose (Version 2)

Before he wrote the Oz books, L. Frank Baum wrote this book which was the best selling book of 1897. Taking 22 beloved nursery rhymes, he explains their meaning and fascinating history. What is the true story of...

Phil Chenevert 4 hours 29 minutes

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Favorite Fairy Tales

This book of favorite fairy tales was compiled and illustrated by Peter Newell. it includes Jack The Giant Killer; Cinderella; Sleeping Beauty; Little Red Riding Hood; Aladin and the Wonderful Lamp, The Ugly...

Nolan Fout and 8 more 5 hours 41 minutes

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Grimms' Fairy Tales (version 2)

Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known...

Bob Neufeld 11 hours 8 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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John Cargill Brough - Fairy Tales of Science

This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, provides an entertaining introduction to topics in science for children. In each chapter, the author uses a popular myth or fairy tale...

J. M. Smallheer 8 hours

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Andrew Lang - Olive Fairy Book

Andrew Lang’s Olive Fairy Book (1907) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as...

Jason Mills and 17 more 9 hours 27 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 015

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 015: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

MaryA and 10 more 1 hour 38 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Snowdrop and Other Tales

Many of these tales were published in English in 1909, the Brothers Grimm tales in this book were published separately in 1920 with illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). (Summary by Ann Boulais)

MaryA and 12 more 4 hours 52 minutes

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Edith Howes - Maoriland Fairy Tales

Most of the tales have some basis in history. It is an oral language so all histories have to be remembered and retold. To help with this memory retelling the carvings all have relative information and prompts,...

Marea Brook 4 hours 23 minutes

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Idylls of the King

Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her...

Elizabeth Klett 9 hours 20 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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