Folk Tales

"Folktales" is a general term for different varieties of traditional narrative. ...more

The Skull
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Federico and the Wolf
The Woman in the Woods and Other North American Stories
Endlessly Ever After: Pick Your Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings!
Aloha Everything
Too Many Pigs and One Big Bad Wolf: A Counting Story
Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland
Dark Folklore
Magnolia Flower
Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass
Kapaemahu
Doña Esmeralda, Who Ate Everything
Under the Great Plum Tree
The Little Blue Bridge (Little Ruby’s Big Ideas)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Italian Folktales
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
The Skull
The Lion and the Mouse
Aesop’s Fables
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
Uprooted by Naomi NovikSpinning Silver by Naomi NovikHeart's Blood by Juliet MarillierBitter Greens by Kate ForsythSealskin by Su Bristow
Old Tales Retold
24 books — 16 voters

The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie   AndersonThe Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine ArdenBaba Yaga's Assistant by Marika McCoolaThe Girl in the Tower by Katherine ArdenVassa in the Night by Sarah  Porter
Baba Yaga
97 books — 45 voters
Chicken Little by Steven KelloggThe Little Red Hen by Barry DownardThe Three Wishes by Margot ZemachThere Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms TabackStrega Nona by Tomie dePaola
Miss Kinders Favorite Folktales
24 books — 4 voters

Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmLittle Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart HymanSaint George and the Dragon by Margaret HodgesThe Jack Tales by Richard Thomas ChaseMore Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
Best Classic Folk Tales
195 books — 23 voters
The City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Kingdom of Copper by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Empire of Gold by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Tale of Iśva Raman by Najeev NadarajahThe Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Middle Eastern - South Asian fantasy
50 books — 38 voters


J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fairy Story (or Folk-tale if you prefer that name) has at any rate been altered: for in this case it has been welded into the 'history'. And not, I think, for the first time by our poet. Beowulf and the Monster were already grafted onto the court of Heorot before ever he made this poem. But however it was done, by one poet or a succession of them, it caused great changes not only of detail but of tone. And it did not leave the history unaffected. You have only to consider how different is ma ...more
J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell

Vishal Singh
A book is the only shuttle service that carries one safely to another dimension and back
Vishal Singh, The Himalayan Kingdoms

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