Showing posts with label childrens fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label childrens fiction. Show all posts

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Fundevogel ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ ...





Fundevogel ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Audiobook



Grimms' Fairy Tales



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Title:  Fundevogel



Author:  Jacob & Wilhelm GRIMM



Genre(s):  Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language:  English



Read By: Scott Splavec



Librivox Recording



More Children's Stories here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDii52OgGrcwBLJeffeLmfx3



Plot:

One day a forester brings home a foundling to raise along with his daughter, and names the child Fundevogel. When Fundevogel and his daughter, Lina, were older, Lina discovered that the cook was a witch and was planning to to eat Fundevogel. She convinced him to run away with her, and by transforming themselves into a variety of objects they are able to elude capture by the cook's assitants. Finally the cook herself seeks them out, and they are able to drown her and return home.



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#GrimmsfairyTales   #BedtimeStory  #ShortStory

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Saturday, September 14, 2019

SHOOTING OF THE RED EAGLE ♦ By ZITKALA-SA ♦ American Indian Legends ♦ Au...





SHOOTING OF THE RED EAGLE ♦ By ZITKALA-SA ♦ American Indian Legends ♦ Audiobook



Title: SHOOTING OF THE RED EAGLE



Author:  ZITKALA-SA



Genre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By: Robert Scott



Librivox Recording



Old Indian Legends by Native American ( Dakota ) Author Zitkala-sa. These Legends feature the exploits of Iktomi the Native American Trickster god.



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Tuesday, September 10, 2019

The Farmer And The Badger ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki ♦ Japanese Fairy Tale...





The Farmer And The Badger ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki  ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales  ♦ Audiobook



More Fairy Tales Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDhRLa5fADyO-H9rs1SxJsVO



Japanese Fairy Tales



Title:  The Farmer And The Badger



Author:  Yei Theodora Ozaki



Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By:  Eliza Horne



Librivox Recording



First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: "...in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West." In part, the project was the result of a suggestion made by her friend Andrew Lang, another collector of fairy stories, who printed his stories in the many Colored Fairy Books. (Summary by not.a.moose)



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Thursday, September 5, 2019

The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Childr...





The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Audiobook



Grimms' Fairy Tales



More Fairy Tales Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDhRLa5fADyO-H9rs1SxJsVO



Title:  The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet



Author:  Jacob & Wilhelm GRIMM



Genre(s):  Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language:  English



Read By: Sherry Crowther



Librivox Recording



More Children's Stories here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDii52OgGrcwBLJeffeLmfx3



Plot:

A cock and hen go to eat nuts. They make a carriage of nutshells to come back in; the hen rides and the cock draws it. The duck attacks them for eating nuts, but the cock defeats him, and he lets himself be harnessed to the carriage instead. A pin and needle join them. They offer an innkeeper the hen's egg and the duck to let them stay, but in the morning, they eat the hen's egg, stick the needle in the innkeeper's chair and the pin in his towel. The duck also goes off. The innkeeper is pricked by both the needle and pin and the eggshell from the hen flies at his eyes. He resolves to never have such ragamuffins in his inn again.





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#GrimmsfairyTales   #BedtimeStory  #ShortStory

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Friday, August 30, 2019

The Mirror of Maysuyama ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales ...





The Mirror of Maysuyama ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki  ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales  ♦ Audiobook



More Fairy Tales Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDhRLa5fADyO-H9rs1SxJsVO



Japanese Fairy Tales



Title:  The Mirror of Maysuyama



Author:  Yei Theodora Ozaki



Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By:  Clarke Bell



Librivox Recording



First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: "...in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West." In part, the project was the result of a suggestion made by her friend Andrew Lang, another collector of fairy stories, who printed his stories in the many Colored Fairy Books. (Summary by not.a.moose)



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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

IKTOMI AND THE FAWN ♦ By ZITKALA-SA ♦ American Indian Legends ♦ Audiobook





IKTOMI AND THE FAWN ♦ By ZITKALA-SA ♦ American Indian Legends ♦ Audiobook



Title: IKTOMI AND THE FAWN



Author:  ZITKALA-SA



Genre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By: Robert Scott



Librivox Recording



Old Indian Legends by Native American ( Dakota ) Author Zitkala-sa. These Legends feature the exploits of Iktomi the Native American Trickster god.



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Saturday, August 24, 2019

The Dog and the Sparrow ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myth...





The Dog and the Sparrow ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Audiobook



Grimms' Fairy Tales



More Fairy Tales Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDhRLa5fADyO-H9rs1SxJsVO



Title:  The Dog and the Sparrow



Author:  Jacob & Wilhelm GRIMM



Genre(s):  Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language:  English



Read By: Sherry Crowther



Librivox Recording



More Children's Stories here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDii52OgGrcwBLJeffeLmfx3



Plot:

A dog owner lets his shepherd dog starve from hunger, causing the dog to leave home. The dog meets a sparrow and accompanies him to the city. The bird captures meat and bread for the dog as a sign of gratitude. When they leave town night falls and they decide to go to sleep. During the night the dog is run over by a man in a horse carriage. The sparrow alerts the man on the carriage, but he ignores the sparrow and runs over the dog. She curses the man by announcing that he will turn into a poor man. Then she pecks the wine barrels the man was transporting open, so that the precious wine leaks out. The bird also pecks out the horses' eyes. When the man tries to kill the bird with an axe he accidentally slays his own horses down. As a result the man is forced to leave his now useless carriage behind and returns home.



At home he notices that birds have eaten all his wheat. He notices the sparrow, still out on revenge, and throws his axe at him, only to smash in his own windows, his stove and the rest of his household. Finally he manages to capture the bird and his wife asks him whether he is going to strike it dead? The man feels this death is not cruel enough for the bird. He swallows it in one big bite. However, the bird still sticks its head out of the man's mouth, prompting him to let his wife take a final swing with his axe at the bird. This kills the man and the bird flies off.



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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

The Ogre of Rashomon ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales ♦ ...





The Ogre of Rashomon ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki  ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales  ♦ Audiobook



More Fairy Tales Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDhRLa5fADyO-H9rs1SxJsVO



Japanese Fairy Tales



Title:  The Ogre of Rashomon



Author:  Yei Theodora OZAKI (1871 - 1932)



Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By:  Scott Robbins



Librivox Recording



First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: "...in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West." In part, the project was the result of a suggestion made by her friend Andrew Lang, another collector of fairy stories, who printed his stories in the many Colored Fairy Books. (Summary by not.a.moose)



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Friday, August 16, 2019

IKTOMI AND THE COYOTE ♦ By ZITKALA-SA ♦ American Indian Legends ♦ Audiobook





IKTOMI AND THE COYOTE ♦ By ZITKALA-SA ♦ American Indian Legends ♦ Audiobook



Title: IKTOMI AND THE COYOTE



Author:  ZITKALA-SA



Genre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By: Robert Scott



Librivox Recording



Old Indian Legends by Native American ( Dakota ) Author Zitkala-sa. These Legends feature the exploits of Iktomi the Native American Trickster god.



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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Little Red-Cap ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legend...





Little Red-Cap ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Audiobook



Grimms' Fairy Tales



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Title:  Little Red-Cap (or) Little Red Riding Hood



Author:  Jacob & Wilhelm GRIMM



Genre(s):  Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language:  English



Read By: Sherry Crowther



Librivox Recording



More Children's Stories here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDii52OgGrcwBLJeffeLmfx3



Plot:

Little Red Cap is one adorable and loveable kid. Come on, if your grandma makes you a hat that you wear everywhere, that's gotta mean something, right? Well apparently, to the wolf, it means "lunch."



Little Red Cap is a sweet kid, but obedience is not at the top of her priorities, which is kind of a problem in fairyland. Her mom is all, "Bring this to grandma and blah blah blah don't stray from the path blah blah blah." Maybe that's a warning you can ignore if the path doesn't go through a forest filled with shady predators, like a smooth-talking wolf. But you can bet that as soon as she ignores it (and she does), bad things are gonna go down.





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#TheBrothersGrimm  #GermanLiterature  #Myths

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Sunday, August 11, 2019

Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus ♦ By Thomas Nelson Page ♦ Legends ♦ Au...





Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus ♦ By Thomas Nelson Page ♦ Legends ♦ Audiobook



Title: Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus



Author: Thomas Nelson Page



Genre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By:  Tom Hirsch



Librivox Recording



A charming tale about an Tommy, affluent Virginia boy who always gets what he wants at Christmas, only to discover his toys never make him quite happy. He begins to take pity on his poor neighbor Johnny, and slowly understands than only by giving can one find true happiness. - Summary by Miles Smith



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Saturday, August 10, 2019

The Fisherman and His Soul ♦ By Oscar Wilde ♦ Myths, Legends ♦ Full Audi...





The Fisherman and His Soul ♦ By Oscar Wilde ♦ Myths, Legends ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: The Fisherman and His Soul



Author: Oscar Wilde



Genre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By: Phil Chenevert



Librivox Recording



To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with the Mermaid and tells her that he wants to marry her. She tells him that he can only marry her if he sends away his soul. From a Witch, the Fisherman learns how to send his soul away. The Soul makes several attempts to persuade the Fisherman to take him back, eventually convincing him to do so with the tale of a beautiful dancer who lives nearby. Too late does the Fisherman discover that the soul which he sent out into the world without a heart has become evil. So be careful what you set your heart on. This story was first published in 1896 in the book A House of Pomegranates. - Summary by phil chenevert





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Wednesday, August 7, 2019

The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki ♦ Japa...





The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki  ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales  ♦ Audiobook



More Fairy Tales Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDhRLa5fADyO-H9rs1SxJsVO



Japanese Fairy Tales



Title:  The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher



Author:  Yei Theodora Ozaki



Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By:  Scott Robbins



Librivox Recording



First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: "...in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West." In part, the project was the result of a suggestion made by her friend Andrew Lang, another collector of fairy stories, who printed his stories in the many Colored Fairy Books. (Summary by not.a.moose)



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Tuesday, August 6, 2019

The Jungle Book ♦ By Rudyard Kipling ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook





The Jungle Book ♦ By Rudyard Kipling ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: The Jungle Book



Author:  Rudyard Kipling



Genre(s): Action & Adventure



Language: English



Read By: Phil Chenevert



Librivox Recording



This is the classic story of Mowgli, the young boy raised by wolves in India: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his capture by the Monkey-People, his attempt at reintegration into human society, and his ultimate triumph over his avowed enemy the tiger Shere Khan. Included in the book is the story of the brave white seal, Kotick, and the tenacious young mongoose, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi who battled through the night to protect his human family from a pair of sly and viscous cobras. Packed with adventure and Jungle Law wisdom, this book has pervaded popular culture as the basis of many film and stage adaptations, including the popular Disney movie.



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Sunday, August 4, 2019

Rapunzel ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Au...





Rapunzel ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Audiobook



Grimms' Fairy Tales



More Fairy Tales Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDhRLa5fADyO-H9rs1SxJsVO



Title:  Rapunzel



Author:  Jacob & Wilhelm GRIMM



Genre(s):  Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language:  English



Read By: Sherry Crowther



Librivox Recording



More Children's Stories here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDii52OgGrcwBLJeffeLmfx3



Plot:

A lonely couple, who want a child, live next to a walled garden belonging to an evil witch named Dame Gothel. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated with the arrival of her long-awaited pregnancy, notices some rapunzel (or, in most translated-to-English versions[12] of the story, rampion), growing in the garden and longs for it. She refuses to eat anything else and gets sick, and the husband begins to fear for her life. One night, her husband breaks into the garden to get some for her. She makes a salad out of it and greedily eats it. It tastes so good that she longs for more. So her husband goes to get some more for her. As he scales the wall to return home, Dame Gothel catches him and accuses him of theft. He begs for mercy, and she agrees to be lenient, and allows him to take all the rapunzel he wants, on condition that the baby be given to her when it's born. Desperate, he agrees. When his wife has a baby girl, Dame Gothel takes her to raise as her own and names her Rapunzel after the plant her mother craved. She grows up to be the most beautiful child in the world with long golden hair. When she turns twelve, Dame Gothel locks her up inside a tower in the middle of the woods, with neither stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window. In order to visit Rapunzel, Dame Gothel stands beneath the tower and calls out:



Rapunzel

Rapunzel

Let down your hair

So that I may climb thy golden stair

One day, a prince rides through the forest and hears Rapunzel singing from the tower. Entranced by her ethereal voice, he searches for her and discovers the tower, but is naturally unable to enter it. He returns often, listening to her beautiful singing, and one day sees Dame Gothel visit, and thus learns how to gain access to Rapunzel. When Dame Gothel leaves, he bids Rapunzel let her hair down. When she does so, he climbs up and they fall in love. He eventually asks her to marry him, which she agrees to.



Together they plan a means of escape, wherein he will come each night (thus avoiding Dame Gothel who visits her by day), and bring Rapunzel a piece of silk, which she will gradually weave into a ladder. Before the plan can come to fruition, however, she foolishly gives him away. In the first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, she innocently says that her dress is growing tighter around her waist (hinting pregnancy); in the second edition, she asks Dame Gothel (in a moment of forgetfulness) why it is easier for her to draw up the prince than her.[13] In anger, she cuts off a majority of Rapunzel's hair and casts her out into the wilderness to fend for herself.



When the prince calls that night, Dame Gothel lets the severed hair down to haul him up. To his horror, he finds himself meeting her instead of Rapunzel, who is nowhere to be found. After she tells him in a jealous rage that he will never see Rapunzel again, Gothel shoves him from the tower, sending him falling into a thorn bush, which blinds him.



For years, he wanders through the wastelands of the country and eventually comes to the wilderness where Rapunzel now lives with the twins she has given birth to, a boy and a girl. One day, as she sings, he hears her voice again, and they are reunited. When they fall into each other's arms, her tears immediately restore his sight. He leads her and their twins to his kingdom, where they live happily ever after.



In some versions of the story, Rapunzel's hair magically grows back after the prince touches it.



Another version of the story ends with the revelation that Dame Gothel had untied Rapunzel's hair after the prince leapt from the tower, and it slipped from her hands and landed far below, leaving her trapped in the towel. Summary By Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel



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Tuesday, July 30, 2019

The Goblin of Adachigahara ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki ♦ Japanese Fairy Tal...





The Goblin of Adachigahara ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki  ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales  ♦ Audiobook



More Fairy Tales Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FVJ7kWYJDhRLa5fADyO-H9rs1SxJsVO



Japanese Fairy Tales



Title:  The Goblin of Adachigahara



Author:  Yei Theodora OZAKI (1871 - 1932)



Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By:  Scott Robbins



Librivox Recording



First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: "...in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West." In part, the project was the result of a suggestion made by her friend Andrew Lang, another collector of fairy stories, who printed his stories in the many Colored Fairy Books. (Summary by not.a.moose)



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Monday, July 29, 2019

Hansel and Gretel ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Leg...





Hansel and Gretel ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Audiobook



Grimms' Fairy Tales



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Title:  Hansel and Gretel



Author:  Jacob & Wilhelm GRIMM



Genre(s):  Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language:  English



Read By: Bill Stackpole



Librivox Recording



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Plot:

Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor woodcutter. When a famine settles over the land, the woodcutter's wife (stepmother to Hansel and Gretel) decides to take the children into the woods and leave them there to fend for themselves so she and her husband will not starve to death. The woodcutter opposes the plan but finally reluctantly submits to his wife's scheme, unaware that Hansel and Gretel have overheard them. After the parents have gone to bed, Hansel sneaks out of the house and gathers as many white pebbles as he can, then returns to his room, reassuring Gretel that God will not forsake them.



The next day, the family walk deep into the woods and Hansel lays a trail of white pebbles. After their parents abandon them, Hansel and Gretel follow the trail back home. When their stepmother sees them, she is furious and locks them in the house. Hansel and Gretel are unable to escape or even simply collect pebbles.



The following morning, the family treks into the woods. Hansel takes a slice of bread and leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them to follow home. However, after they are once again abandoned, they find that birds have eaten the crumbs, leaving them lost in the woods. After days of wandering, they follow a beautiful white bird to a clearing in the woods, and discover a large cottage built of gingerbread, cakes, and candy, with window panes of clear sugar. Hungry and tired, the children begin to eat the roof, when the door opens and a hideous old hag emerges and lures the children inside, with the promise of soft beds, delicious food, and a hot bath. They do this unaware that their hostess is a bloodthirsty witch who built the gingerbread house to waylay children to cook and eat them.



The next morning, the witch throws Hansel into a cage and enslaves Gretel. The witch force-feeds Hansel regularly to fatten him up. Hansel realizes this and uses the witch's tendency to his advantage. Every time the witch checks how fat Hansel is, by way of seeing Hansel's finger, he sticks out a bone in the cage. Because of the witch's blindness, she is fooled into thinking Hansel is too thin to eat. After weeks of the same result, the witch grows impatient and decides to eat Hansel anyway.



The next day, the witch prepares the oven for Hansel, but decides she is hungry enough to eat Gretel too. She coaxes Gretel to the open oven and prods her to lean over in front of it to see if the fire is hot enough. Gretel, sensing the witch's intent, pretends she does not understand what she means. Infuriated, the witch demonstrates, and Gretel pushes her into the oven, leaving "the ungodly creature to be burned to ashes". Gretel frees Hansel from the cage and the pair discover a vase full of treasure and precious stones. Putting the jewels into their clothing, the children set off for home. They arrive home to hear that their stepmother had since died and father had not had a happy day since they were gone. They live happily ever after with the witch's wealth they brought home. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_and_Gretel





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Thursday, July 25, 2019

Shin-ge-bis Fools The North Wind ♦ American Indian fairy Tales ♦ Full Au...





Shin-ge-bis Fools The North Wind ♦ American Indian fairy Tales ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Shin-ge-bis Fools The North Wind



Authors: William Trowbridge Larned  and Henry R. Schoolcraft



Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Short Stories



Language: English



Read By;  Chip



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With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by way of stories. Far more than mere tales to amuse children, they passed along the collective wisdom of the tribes. In the 1830s, government Indian Agent and ethnologist Henry R Schoolcraft learned the language of these people and went out to collect and preserve their stories before the tribes disappeared under the westward rush of American civilization. Though these stories were recast as children’s fairy tales in the 1920s, they contain much of the old wisdom of a culture which has largely disappeared. (Summary by Chip)



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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

The Stones of Five Colors and The Empress Jokwa ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki ...





The Stones of Five Colors and The Empress Jokwa ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki  ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales  ♦ Audiobook



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Japanese Fairy Tales



Title:  The Stones of Five Colors and The Empress Jokwa



Author:  Yei Theodora OZAKI (1871 - 1932)



Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By:  Scott Robbins



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First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: "...in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West." In part, the project was the result of a suggestion made by her friend Andrew Lang, another collector of fairy stories, who printed his stories in the many Colored Fairy Books. (Summary by not.a.moose)



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Thursday, July 18, 2019

Tom Thumb ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ A...



Tom Thumb ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Audiobook



Grimms' Fairy Tales



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Title:  Tom Thumb



Author:  Jacob & Wilhelm GRIMM



Genre(s):  Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language:  English



Read By: Gesine



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Plot:

Richard Johnson's The History of Tom Thumbe of 1621 tells that in the days of King Arthur, old Thomas of the Mountain, a plowman and a member of the King's Council, wants nothing more than a son, even if he is no bigger than his thumb. He sends his wife to consult with Merlin. In three months time, she gives birth to the diminutive Tom Thumb. The "Queene of Fayres" and her attendants act as midwives. She provides Tom with an oak leaf hat, a shirt of cobweb, a doublet of thistledown, stockings of apple rind, and shoes of mouse's skin.



Tom cheats at games with other boys and because of his many tricks, the boys will not associate with him. Tom retaliates by using magic to hang his mother's pots and glasses from a sunbeam. When his fellows try the same, their pots and glasses fall and are broken. Thereafter, Tom stays home under his mother's supervision. At Christmas, she makes puddings, but Tom falls into the batter and is boiled into one of them. When a tinker comes begging, Tom's mother inadvertently gives him the pudding containing her son. The tinker farts while crossing a stile, but Tom calls out about the farting and the frightened tinker drops the pudding. Tom eats himself free and returns home to tell his mother and father of his adventure.



His mother thereafter keeps a closer watch upon him. One day, he accompanies her to the field to milk the cows. He sits under a thistle, but a red cow swallows him. The cow is given a laxative and Tom passes from her in a "cowturd." He is taken home and cleaned. Another day, he accompanies his father for the seed sowing and rides in the horse's ear. Tom is set down in the field to play the scarecrow, but a raven carries him away. His parents search for him, but are unable to find him.



The raven drops Tom at the castle of a giant. The cruel giant swallows the tiny boy like a pill. Tom thrashes about so much in the giant's stomach that he is vomited into the sea. There, he is eaten once more by a fish which is caught for King Arthur's supper. The cook is astonished to see the little man emerge from the fish. Tom then becomes King Arthur's Dwarf.



Tom becomes a favorite at King Arthur's royal court, especially among the ladies. There is revelry; Tom joins the jousting and dances in the palm of a Maid of Honour. He goes home briefly to see his parents, taking some money from the treasury with the king's permission, then returns to court. The Queene of Fayres finds him asleep on a rose and leaves him several gifts: an enchanted hat of knowledge, a ring of invisibility, a shape-changing girdle, and shoes to take him anywhere in a moment.



Tom falls seriously ill when a lady blows her nose, but is cured by the physician to King Twaddell of the Pygmies. He takes a ride in his walnut shell coach and meets Garagantua. Each boasts of his many powers. When Garagantua threatens to harm Tom, he is cast under an enchantment and Tom hurries home to safety. King Arthur listens with amazement to Tom's many adventures.



Richard Johnson's 1621 narrative ends here, but he promised his readers a sequel that has never been found, if published at all. In 1630, a metrical version in three parts was published that continues Tom's adventures. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Thumb





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