Folk Tales

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

The Skull
The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Endlessly Ever After: Pick Your Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings!
The Woman in the Woods and Other North American Stories
Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass
Queer Mythology: Epic Legends from Around the World
Three Little Vikings
Dark Folklore
Kapaemahu
Federico and the Wolf
Chicken Little: The Real and Totally True Tale
The Little Blue Bridge (Little Ruby’s Big Ideas)
Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga (A Women in Horror Anthology)
Russian Tales: Traditional Stories of Quests and Enchantments
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 Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
The Skull
The Lion and the Mouse
Aesop’s Fables
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. JoosseSleep Well, Siba and Saba by Nansubuga Nagadya IsdahlHush! A Thai Lullaby by Minfong HoDragon Dancer by Joyce ChngSing to the Moon by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
Multicultural Children's Books
207 books — 63 voters

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée AhdiehThe Rose & the Dagger by Renée AhdiehA Thousand Nights by E.K. JohnstonThe Storyteller's Daughter by Cameron DokeyThe Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury
One Thousand and One Nights Retellings
137 books — 167 voters
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. WredeSir Princess Petra's Talent by Diane Mae RobinsonThe Paper Bag Princess by Robert MunschElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineSir Princess Petra by Diane Mae Robinson
Girl Power Princesses
191 books — 74 voters


Charles de Lint
I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk tales and fairy tales are based on real, if forgotten events, I never accepted that part of it as being real. ...more
Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl

Gyula Illyés
The life of the hero of the tale is, at the outset, overshadowed by bitter and hopeless struggles; one doubts that the little swineherd will ever be able to vanquish the awful Dragon with the twelve heads. And yet, ...truth and courage prevail and the youngest and most neglected son of the family, of the nation, of mankind, chops off all twelve heads of the Dragon, to the delight of our anxious hearts. This exultant victory, towards which the hero of the tale always strives, is the hope and trus ...more
Gyula Illyes, Once Upon a Time: Forty Hungarian Folk-Tales

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