Legends & Fairy Tales
The Race Of The Swift
Read by David Wales
Edwin Carlile Litsey
This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales
Coppertop
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Harold Gaze
The story is about a little girl who meets all manner of strange gnomes, fairies and creatures after she goes to sleep at night. She also ha…
The Meadow Sprite, and Other Tales of Modern Germany
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Rudolf Baumbach, Richard von Volkmann and Richard Von Volkmann
Gertrude Schottenfels has collected and arranged eleven original tales from Germany in this volume. Ms Schottenfels alternates between stori…
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
Read by Phil Benson
William T. Cox
A limbless reptilian monster that propels itself through the swamps with a propellor-tipped tail? A creature so ashamed of its monstrous app…
Teddy Bears
Read by Linda Andrus
Adah Louise Sutton
Set in the early 1900's, this is a delightful story of a tribe of Teddy Bears arrival in the department store and the adventures some of the…
Puss in Boots, Jr. and Tom Thumb
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David Cory
David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This book is in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the legend of Puss i…
Bunny Brothers
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Jacqueline Clayton
Pinkie is one of a whole bunch of bunny brothers and sisters. Their mother, Mrs. Bunny, is a busy woman and often exasperated with the exub…
The Fables of Pilpay
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Abdullah Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ
These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabi…
Tall Tales from Texas
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Mody Coggin Boatright
Some tall tales from Texas. Lies? well, just stretching the truth a bit. These 8 stories have lots of good 'ol Texas 'dialect' in them so …
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…
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 …
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.
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)
Read by Damerel
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
Read by Steven Fellows
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)
Read by T. Craft
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…