Legends & Fairy Tales

The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer

by William James McGlothlin Read by Phil Schempf 4.4
This is the prequel of the Nibelungenlied. It tells the tale of Siegfried as a young man when he sets forth to earn a name for himself so h…

The Fairy Spinning Wheel and the Tales it spun

by Catulle Mendès Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This is a little volume of old-fashioned fairy tales, collected and rewritten by Catulle Mendès and translated from the French and ad…

Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry

by William Patten Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

More Jataka Tales

by Ellen C. Babbitt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The continued success of the "Jataka Tales," as retold and published ten years ago, has led to this second and companion volume. W…

Life and Death

by Henryk Sienkiewicz Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Henryk Sienkiewicz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905, but as he wrote in Polish many English-speakers are unfamiliar with his work.…

The Indian Fairy Book

by Henry R. Schoolcraft Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
These Indian fairy tales are chosen from the many stories collected by Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft, the first man to study how the Indians live…

Sintram and His Companions

by Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, also the author of Undine, was a German Romantic writer whose stories were filled with knights, damsels in dis…

Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman

by Annie Fellows Johnston Read by Linette Geisel 4.7
We all know that Santa Claus has a large family in which to help him in the delivery of presents, peace, and good cheer. So what would you d…

The Giant-Killer

by Charlotte Maria Tucker Read by Lynne T 4.3
Ten year old twins. Constantine and Adolphus are chagrined to be shipped off to a private tutor in the country. Their lot appears worse when…

The Laughing Bear and Other Stories

by Robert Bloomer Hare Bell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
A collection of unique stories for listeners with the wisdom to see a bit beyond the printed words. The stories start in Korea with The Lau…

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

by Lewis Carroll Read by Catharine Eastman 4.5
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded continues the adventures of the many characters in the previous volume Sylvie and Bruno. The fairy-children Sylvi…

Fairy Stories my Children Love Best of All

by Edgar Dubs Shimer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.1
In this collection, we get to know which fairy tales Mr Shimer loved to tell his kids. Some of the stories may be familiar, but most of them…

Christ Legends

by Selma Lagerlöf Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
These are beautiful little stories about Christmas from the Swedish storyteller Selma Lagerlöf. As she explains in the first story, th…

Children's Short Works

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Discover a delightful assortment of stories in Children's Short Works, a collection that brings together 15 enchanting tales for young liste…

The Mermaid's Message

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This is a collection of fairy tales and fables compiled in 1919. The stories contain original but old-fashioned tales which modern children …

The Junior Classics

by Variousandwilliam Patten and Various And William Patten Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
Compilation of tales designed and arranged for young people. This volume covers tales from the North, the Rhine, Greece and Rome, tales fro…

Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan

by Toru Dutt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Toru Dutt was an Indian poet, writing in English. Born in 1856, she travelled to England and France, and being a polyglot became fluent in F…

Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks

by Jean de la Fontaine Read by Rosslyn Carlyle 4.1
This is a short book which collects together 18 charming fables, written in rhyme and intended to be enjoyed by children. Based on stories w…

Denslow's Three Bears

by W. W. Denslow Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) 4.3
This version of the classic tale of the three bears has a heroine named Golden Hair. The jolly bears, instead of chasing her away from their…

The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes

by Pádraic Colum Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
"Because she used to herd Goats in the high places and the rocky places, she went by the name of Girl-go-with-the-Goats. But that was n…

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