Folk Tales

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

The Skull
Endlessly Ever After: Pick Your Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings!
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole
Kapaemahu
Magnolia Flower
Too Many Pigs and One Big Bad Wolf: A Counting Story
Old Songs: Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads
Queer Mythology: Epic Legends from Around the World
Doña Esmeralda, Who Ate Everything
The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas
Gloria's Porridge
Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes: Hervor and Heidrek, Hrólf Kraki and His Champions
Dark Folklore
Kuan Yin: The Princess Who Became the Goddess of Compassion
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 Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
The Lion and the Mouse
Aesop’s Fables
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
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
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysUntil the Robin Walks on Snow by Bernice L. RocqueWe Are Here by Ellen CassedyWhite Field, Black Sheep by Daiva MarkelisUnderground by Antanas Šileika
Books of Lithuania
53 books — 29 voters

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna AardemaMufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John SteptoeAnansi the Spider by Gerald McDermottBringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna AardemaSleep Well, Siba and Saba by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
Picture Books on Africa
361 books — 48 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
49 books — 39 voters



Terri Windling
Silence is another element we find in classic fairy tales — girls muted by magic or sworn to silence in order to break enchantment. In "The Wild Swans," a princess is imprisoned by her stepmother, rolled in filth, then banished from home (as her older brothers had been before her). She goes in search of her missing brothers, discovers that they've been turned into swans, whereupon the young girl vows to find a way to break the spell. A mysterious woman comes to her in a dream and tells her what ...more
Terri Windling, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales

Suzy  Davies
The tall cityscape that was Anchorage encroached on the wide skies. It was like a giant walking and uninhabited, unclaimed land.
Suzy Davies, The Girl in The Red Cape

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