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  • Favorite Folktales from Around the World (The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)

    From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countries and cultures. These tales of wonder and transformation, of heroes and heroines, of love lost and won, of ogres and trolls, stories both jocular and cautionary and legends of pure enchantment will delight readers and storytellers of all ages.With black-and-white drawings throughoutPart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    Best Folktales From Around The World

    • ASIN: 0394751884
    • ASIN: 0394751884
    • ISBN: 0394751884
    • Manufacturer: Pantheon

  • Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World

    One hundred great folk tales and fairy tales from all over the world about strong, smart, brave heroines.Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and New World settlers, from Asia and the Middle East, these 100 folktales celebrate strong female heroines.Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters is for all women who are searching to define who they are, to redefine the world and shape their collective sensibility. It is for men who want to know more about what it means to be a woman. It is for our daughters and our sons, so that they can ... [Read More]
    Best Folktales From Around The World

    • ASIN: B00ZHJEKH8
    • ASIN: B00ZHJEKH8
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • Best-Loved Folktales of the World (The Anchor Folktale Library)

    This collection of over two hundred folk and fairy tales from all over the world is the only edition that encompasses all cultures. Arranged geographically by region—West and East Europe, British Isles, Scandinavia, and Northern Europe, Middle East, Asia, the Pacific, Africa, North America, the Carribean and West Indies, and Central and South America—and lovingly selected from the personal favorites of folklorists and writers, this book is a major anthology in its field.Gathered together in this wide-ranging collection are familiar classics like "Snow-White" and "Sleeping Beauty," and stories that equal them from all major cultures. Together they offer magic, adventure, laughter, reflection, vivid images, and a throng of colorful characters. More important, they offer insight into the ... [Read More]
    Best Folktales From Around The World

    • ASIN: 0385189494
    • ASIN: 0385189494
    • ISBN: 0385189494
    • Brand: Anchor Books
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • A Year Full of Stories: 52 classic stories from all around the world

    This treasury of 52 stories collects together a rich resource of myths, fairy tales and legends from around the world, with a story for every week of the year. The book is broken into 12 chapters, for each of the 12 months of the year, and throughout, stories are matched to internationally celebrated dates, including Valentines Day and the International Day of Friendship, as well as seasonal events and festivals. Collected and retold by award-winning author Angela McAllister, and illustrated by internally recognised artist Christopher Corr, this is a book that will be treasured by families and appeal to teachers and librarians around the world.
    Best Folktales From Around The World

    • ASIN: 1847808689
    • ASIN: 1847808689
    • ISBN: 1847808689
    • Brand: Frances Lincoln Children s Bks
    • Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln Children's Books

  • Fairies and Elves: Folktales from around the world (Short Fairy Tales for Children, Bedtime Stories, Fairy Tales for Kids ages 6-12)

    The traditional retold fairy tales in this volume speak of the awesome and the marvellous, of the perilous and the exhilarating. We shall explore the traditional, age-old stories for children our ancestors have told us about Fairies and Elves.The sightings and tales about them span millennia and countless countries, peoples and clans. Their traits and appearance vary, but there are always qualities that tell of their essence as elves and fairies.These beings represent everything that is beyond us; everything that is mysterious and amazing. They often embody the energy of the natural world, and appear as its guardians and protectors. Just as nature though, they can be both generous and destructive towards us. But whatever their behaviour, we are always spell-bound.Beauty, childlike joy, nob... [Read More]
    Best Folktales From Around The World

    • ASIN: B07H7HZF2J
    • ASIN: B07H7HZF2J

  • Tatterhood: Feminist Folktales from Around the World

    From Japan to Norway, Scotland to Sudan, Tatterhood brings readers twelve folk tales—and twelve women whose cunning, hard work, and physical strength are celebrated in each story. A family of three women teaches a burly man how to wrestle, a girl battles a fearsome bear, and a young mother rescues her village from an elephant's stomach.
    Best Folktales From Around The World

    • ASIN: 1558619291
    • ASIN: 1558619291
    • ISBN: 1558619291
    • Manufacturer: The Feminist Press at CUNY

  • Between Heaven and Earth: Bird Tales from Around the World

    For centuries birds and their magnificent ability to fly have inspired tales of mischief, mystery, and enchantment. In a collection that is as beautiful as it is timeless, award-winning author Howard Norman and Caldecott medalists Leo and Diane Dillon offer five bird stories from around the world--including one about an elusive bird that sings like a warthog and another about a much loved quail dying of thirst.This glorious collaboration is the perfect gift for any family library, a book that children and parents alike will treasure.
    Best Folktales From Around The World

    • ASIN: 0152019820
    • ASIN: 0152019820
    • ISBN: 0152019820
    • Manufacturer: Gulliver Books

  • Princess Tales Around the World: Once Upon a Time in Rhyme with Seek-and-Find Pictures

    ONCE UPON A TIME… A princess laughed, A princess sang, Another made a trade.One told stories, One was kind, Another refused to wed.One cast spells, One was cursed, Another silently sewed every day. And one tossed golden apples away in ten fairy tales retold.In Princess Tales Around the World ten beloved princess stories, ingeniously told and gorgeously illustrated―with hidden pictures for readers to find―by author Grace Maccarone and artist Gail de Marcken, will delight readers, happily ever after.Tales include: Rapunzel, The Golden Goose, The Little Mermaid, The Firebird, Scheherazade, Princess Moonlight, The Princess on the Glass Hill, The Loathsome Dragon, Toads and Diamonds, and Six Swans, with Source Notes from the author.
    Best Folktales From Around The World

    • ASIN: 1250061032
    • ASIN: 1250061032
    • ISBN: 1250061032
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Feiwel & Friends

  • Why The Hedgehog Rolls Into A Ball (The Best Animal Folktales From Around The World Book 1)

    ''Why The Hedgehog Rolls Into A Ball'' is the first of a new series ''The Best Animal Folktales From Around The World'', selected and adapted by the team of ''Tunisian Arabic 24 Bookstore'' in Tunisia.
    Best Folktales From Around The World

    • ASIN: B079B1NYN3
    • ASIN: B079B1NYN3
    • Manufacturer: Tunisian Arabic 24 Bookstore, Tunisia

  • Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World

    The “tale as old as time,” in versions from across the centuries and around the world—published to coincide with Disney’s live-action 3D musical film starring Emma Watson, Ian McKellen, Ewan McGregor, Audra McDonald, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, Dan Stevens, and Emma ThompsonNearly every culture tells the story of Beauty and the Beast in one fashion or another. From Cupid and Psyche to India’s Snake Bride to South Africa’s “Story of Five Heads,” the partnering of beasts and beauties, of humans and animals in all their variety—cats, dogs, frogs, goats, lizards, bears, tortoises, monkeys, cranes, warthogs—has beguiled us for thousands of years, mapping the cultural contradictions that riddle every romantic relationship.In this fascinating volume, preeminent fairy tale scho... [Read More]
    Best Folktales From Around The World

    • ASIN: 0143111698
    • ASIN: 0143111698
    • ISBN: 9780143111696
    • Brand: PENGUIN CLASSICS
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Stories to Solve : Folktales from Around the World

    This artful, illustrated book presents 14 intriguing mysteries from world folklore, with each brainteasing tale followed by a simple explanation of the solution. Notes at the back of the book describe the origin of these classic
    Best Folktales From Around The World
    How can a thirsty crow drink from an almost-empty pitcher? How does arresting a stone help a judge find a boy's stolen money? This artfully illustrated book presents fourteen intriguing mysteries from world folklore. Each brain-teasing tale is followed by a simple explanation of the solution, while notes at the back of the book describe the origins of these classic

    • UPC: 753981
    • Rating: 3.0

  • More Stories to Solve : Fifteen Folktales from Around the World

    In this engaging sequel to "Stories to Solve" master storyteller Shannon presents 15 more ancient, brain-teasing tales with origins from around the world. Elegantly illustrated by two-time Caldecott Honor winner Peter Sis, each story is followed by the clear, simple solution readers can reach themselves if they think hard
    Best Folktales From Around The World
    How did they do it?How did a single firefly win a fight against onw hundred apes? How did the priest catch a thief with a rooster? How did a student outwit the king? How did a frog escape fron the picher of cream? These and eleven more tantalizing, brain-teasing mysteries are waiting in the pages of this

    • UPC: 910548
    • Rating: 3.0

  • Tatterhood : Feminist Folktales from Around the World

    Newly illustrated, these classic tales remind us that girls everywhere have been the heroes of their own stories for
    Best Folktales From Around The World
    From Japan to Norway, Scotland to Sudan, Tatterhood brings readers twelve folk tales--and twelve women whose cunning, hard work, and physical strength are celebrated in each story. A family of three women teaches a burly man how to wrestle, a girl battles a fearsome bear, and a young mother rescues her village from an elephant's

    • UPC: 49289406

  • Favorite Folktales from Around the World

    Between these two covers, readers will discover an inexhaustible source of delight for children and adults alike: the world's best folktales, chosen by the internationally known storyteller Jane Yolen. "A feast of good reading . . . deserves a place in every home where there are children".--John Barkham
    Best Folktales From Around The World
    From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countries and cultures. These tales of wonder and transformation, of heroes and heroines, of love lost and won, of ogres and trolls, stories both jocular and cautionary and legends of pure enchantment will delight readers and storytellers of all ages.With black-and-white drawings throughoutPart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore

    • UPC: 455186
    • Rating: 3.5

  • Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters : Heroines in Folktales from Around the World

    This "jewel of an anthology" ("Booklist") features 100 great folktales and fairy tales from all over the world about strong, smart, brave heroines. "The result is a book of . . . shimmering, spine-tingling tales in which females of every shape, age, and size valiantly and selflessly save the day"
    Best Folktales From Around The World
    Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and New World settlers, from Asia and the Middle East, these 100 folktales celebrate strong female heroines.Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters is for all women who are searching to define who they are, to redefine the world and shape their collective sensibility. It is for men who want to know more about what

    • UPC: 754070
    • Rating: 4.5

  • The Child Gods - Japanese Folk Tales | +More Fairy Tales & Moral Stories for School kids in Magicbox

    #MagicBoxEnglishStories #MagicBoxKidsTV #HanselandGretelStory The story of Takeshi and The Six Statues of God has been extracted from Japanese Folklore. The story describes a lovely newlywed couple...
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    Vietnamese Folktale-The Starfruit Tree

    This story is based on the Vietnamese folktale, "The Starfruit Tree," which has various versions. Inspiration to make this video is to help ESL students at Hope Services by sharing their culture an...
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    Folktales Around the World: Mexico

    This video is part of an upcoming series of videos and multimedia resources on folktales.