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The Complete Butcher's Tales by Rikki Ducornet

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by G.I. Gurdjieff

Romanian Fantastic Tales by Ana Cartianu

Old Tuitive "Tales" Tacitly Told

325 books — 7 voters

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback

Miss Kinders Favorite Folktales

24 books — 4 voters

Geoffrey P. Ward's Guide to Villainy by M.A. Nichols

Matthias and the Shadow by Michael Blythe

Best "Folklore/Mythology" Retelling Books

59 books — 19 voters

Every Tongue Got to Confess by Zora Neale Hurston

The Book of Negro Folklore by Langston Hughes

The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton

Myths, Legends, and Folklore of African-Americans

102 books — 12 voters

New American Folktales

2 books — 1 voter

The Six Macs and the Bell of Souls by David J. Dawkins

The Six Macs and the Slime Monster from Loch Ness by David J. Dawkins

The Six Macs and the Purple Orb by David J. Dawkins

McBroom and the Beanstalk by Sid Fleischman

American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne

Best Tall Tales for Children

12 books — 6 voters

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New Nonfiction to Read This Women's History Month

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“ But a lie is a house carefully built on rotten stilts. A liar often forgets the beginning of his tale before he gets to the end, and in this way one will catch him. A lie is a tale carefully told if allowed to be told, and I would seek to break his untruth by asking him to tell a different part of the tale. ”
― Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

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“ He always had a wild desire for notoriety... always had a craze to be mixed up with any scandal or catastrophe he heard of. Why, that man didn't like funerals because he couldn't pretend to be the corpse. ...more ”
― L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

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