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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.23 — 223,780 ratings — published 1812
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.32 — 55,865 ratings — published 2009
Italian Folktales: The Literary Collection of Two Hundred Classic Tales and Traditional Italian Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,828 ratings — published 1956
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,398 ratings — published 1975
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,709 ratings — published 1989
The Skull (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 29 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.14 — 17,715 ratings — published 2023
The Lion and the Mouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,577 ratings — published 2009
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.08 — 245,810 ratings — published 2017
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.35 — 21,119 ratings — published 1987
Folktales from India (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.06 — 684 ratings — published 1992
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,386 ratings — published 1973
Norwegian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,034 ratings — published 1868
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,727 ratings — published 1855
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,733 ratings — published 2007
Favorite Folktales from Around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.18 — 986 ratings — published 1986
Stone Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.25 — 47,139 ratings — published 1947
Strega Nona (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.26 — 90,829 ratings — published 1975
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,754 ratings — published 1985
Starry River of the Sky (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,366 ratings — published 2012
The Mitten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.28 — 95,312 ratings — published 1989
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,444 ratings — published 1984
The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,731 ratings — published 2016
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.32 — 197,233 ratings — published 1989
It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,103 ratings — published 1976
The Rough-Face Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,787 ratings — published 1998
Abiyoyo (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,771 ratings — published 1963
Tikki Tikki Tembo (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.20 — 65,219 ratings — published 1968
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.02 — 83,769 ratings — published 800
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.05 — 131,124 ratings — published -560
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.29 — 109,180 ratings — published 1850
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.09 — 349,201 ratings — published 2017
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,579 ratings — published 1989
African Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.76 — 308 ratings — published 1983
The Three Pigs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.16 — 20,841 ratings — published 2001
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,119 ratings — published 1977
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,664 ratings — published 1979
Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,875 ratings — published 2019
Japanese Fairy Tales (Tuttle Classics)
by (shelved 14 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,721 ratings — published 1903
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,015 ratings — published 1988
A Story, a Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,407 ratings — published 1970
Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.88 — 776 ratings — published 2000
The Sleeper and the Spindle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,583 ratings — published 2013
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,222 ratings — published 1997
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,601 ratings — published 2011
Arab Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.02 — 164 ratings — published 1986
Once a Mouse... (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,142 ratings — published 1961
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.55 — 2,669 ratings — published 2010
Golem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,079 ratings — published 1996
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,179 ratings — published 1888
The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as folktales)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,002 ratings — published 2022
“Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky pen, use it. If you speak with more force and wit when wearing one red sock and one blue one, dress like that. When I’m at work I’m highly superstitious. My own superstition has to do with the voice in which the story comes out. I believe that every story is attended by its own sprite, whose voice we embody when we tell the tale, and that we tell it more successfully if we approach the sprite with a certain degree of respect and courtesy. These sprites are both old and young, male and female, sentimental and cynical, sceptical and credulous, and so on, and what’s more, they’re completely amoral: like the air-spirits who helped Strong Hans escape from the cave, the story-sprites are willing to serve whoever has the ring, whoever is telling the tale. To the accusation that this is nonsense, that all you need to tell a story is a human imagination, I reply, ‘Of course, and this is the way my imagination works.”
― Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
― Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
“When the animals started living here on Earth, something seemed to happen to them. Where before they had gotten along with each other, now they started having little arguments and disagreements. It was only a matter of time before they weren't much different from people.”
― The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
― The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
