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- A Knock at the door
- A bag of moonshine
- A book of charms and changelings.
- A book of devils and demons.
- A book of dwarfs.
- A book of ghosts & goblins.
- A book of monsters
- A book of spooks and spectres
- A cavalcade of sea legends.
- A choice of magic.
- A coat for the moon and other Jewish tales
- A gift from the heart; : folk tales from Bulgaria.
- A guide book to the Great Tree
- A harvest of Russian children's literature.
- A hen, a chick, and a string guitar
- A journey to paradise and other Jewish tales
- A letter to the king
- A little story about a big turnip
- A million fish-- more or less
- A pride of princesses : princess tales from around the world
- A song of stars : an Asian legend
- A strange servant : a Russian folktale
- A tale of two tengu : a Japanese folktale
- A time of golden dragons
- A treasury of Turkish folktales for children
- A treasury of mermaids : mermaid tales from around the world
- A twist in the tail : animal stories from around the world
- A wagonload of fish
- A world of nonsense; : strange and humorous tales from many lands.
- Abadeha : the Philippine Cinderella
- Adelita : a Mexican Cinderella story
- Aesop's fables
- Aesop's fables
- Aesop's fables
- Aesop's fables
- Aesop's fables
- Aesop's fox
- African-American folktales for young readers : including favorite stories from African and African-American storytellers
- Ainsi parla l'oncle : essais d'ethnographie
- Alan Garner's Book of British fairy tales
- Alexandra the rock eater : an old Rumanian tale retold
- Alice Nizzy Nazzy : the witch of Santa Fe
- All of our noses are here, and other noodle tales
- Amber Day : a very tall tale
- American tall-tale animals.
- Amzat and his brothers : three Italian tales
- An illustrated treasury of myths and legends
- Anansi and the moss covered rock
- Anansi and the moss-covered rock
- Angels, prophets, rabbis & kings from the stories of the Jewish people
- Anklet for a princess : a Cinderella story from India
- Annie Oakley : Pecos Bill
- Anno's twice told tales : The fisherman and his wife & The four clever brothers
- Apples from heaven : multicultural folk tales about stories and storytellers
- Arion and the dolphins : based on an ancient Greek legend
- Armadilly chili
- Around the world tales
- Arthur and the sword
- Ashpet : an Appalachian tale
- Ask the bones : scary stories from around the world
- Aukele the fearless; : a legend of old Hawaii,
- Azukigayu B?san to tora
- Baba Yaga
- Baba Yaga
- Baba Yaga's geese, and other Russian stories.
- Baboushka and the three kings.
- Babushka : an old Russian folktale
- Babushka i tigr
- Bamboo hats and a rice cake : a tale adapted from Japanese folklore
- Bat's big game
- Battle of the beasts
- Bawshou rescues the sun : a Han folktale
- Bearhead : a Russian folktale
- Beat the story-drum, pum-pum
- Beauties and beasts
- Beauties, beasts, and enchantment : classic French fairy tales
- Beauty and the Beast
- Beauty and the beast
- Beauty and the beast
- Beauty and the beast
- Beauty and the beast
- Beauty and the beast and other stories
- Beauty and the beast, and other tales
- Befana: : a Christmas story,
- Beginnings : creation myths of the world
- Behold-- the dragons!
- Beowulf : a hero's tale retold
- Beowulf : a tale of blood, heat, and ashes
- Between heaven and earth : bird tales from around the world
- Beyond the east wind : legends and folktales of Vietnam
- Billy Beg and his bull : an Irish tale
- Birrarung wilam : a story from Aboriginal Australia
- Bit by bit
- Bo Rabbit smart for true : folktales from the Gullah
- Bone button borscht
- Borreguita and the coyote : a tale from Ayutla, Mexico
- Bouki dances the Kokioko : a comical tale from Haiti
- Bowleg Bill : seagoing cowboy
- Brainteasers from Jewish folklore
- Brat i sestra, stavshie soln?tsem i luno?
- Brave Margaret : an Irish adventure
- Brave Martha and the dragon
- Brendan the Navigator : a history mystery about the discovery of America
- Brer Tiger and the big wind
- Brigid's cloak : an ancient Irish story
- British folk tales : new versions
- British folktales
- Brother Anansi and the cattle ranch
- Brothers : a Hebrew legend
- Bulfinch's Mythology
- Bulfinch's mythology
- By loch and by lin; : tales from Scottish ballads
- Cactus soup
- Can you guess my name? : traditional tales around the world
- Can't catch me
- Catlore : tales from around the world
- Cats of myth : tales from around the world
- Celtic fairy tales,
- Cendrillon : conte
- Ch?rtova dubinka : Ch?rtova dubinka, 1 ; | 2
- Changing Woman and her sisters : stories of goddesses from around the world
- Charles and Claudine
- Chicken Little
- Chicken Little
- Chikaramochi no Panchogi
- Children of yayoute : folk tales of Haiti
- Chin music : tall talk and other talk
- Chinese children's favorite stories
- Chinese fairy tales and folk tales
- Chinese folktales
- Chinese myths & legends
- Chinesische Volksmärchen : nach chinesischen Quellen erzählt
- Chʻeng le tʻai yang ho y?eh liang ti hsiung mei liang
- Cinderella
- Cinderella
- Cinderella
- Cinderella
- Cinderella
- Cinderella
- Cinderella
- Cinderella : a fairy tale
- Cinderella : a fashionable tale
- Cinderella ; Cinderella, the untold story
- Cinderella Skeleton
- Cinderella at the ball
- Cinderella's dress
- Cinderella, and other tales from Perrault
- Cinderella.
- Cinderellis and the glass hill
- Cinders : a chicken Cinderella
- Claymore and kilt : tales of Scottish kings and castles,
- Clever Beatrice and the best little pony
- Clever Gretchen and other forgotten folktales
- Clever Kate.
- Cloud weavers : ancient Chinese legends
- Contes pour les soirs d'été
- Coo-my-dove, my dear
- Count Silvernose : a story from Italy
- Crocodile! crocodile! : stories told around the world
- Crookjaw
- Cross your fingers, spit in your hat; : superstitions and other beliefs.
- Crow and Weasel
- Cuckoo : a Mexican folktale = Cuc? : un cuento folkl?rico mexicano
- Cuentos de Andersen
- Cuentos en c?mic de los Grimm
- D'Aulaires' Trolls
- Dance of the animals; : a Puerto Rican folk tale.
- Daniel O'Rourke : an Irish tale
- Diane Goode's book of scary stories & songs
- Diane Goode's book of silly stories & songs
- Dick Whittington and his cat
- Dick Whittington.
- Doctor Bird : three lookin' up tales from Jamaica
- Doctor Change
- Dogs of myth : tales from around the world
- Don't leave an elephant to go and chase a bird
- Drabne of Dole
- Dragons
- Dragons, dragons, dragons.
- Drakestail
- Drakestail visits the king : a magic lantern fairy tale
- Duppy talk : West Indian tales of mystery and magic
- Dusty Locks and the three bears
- Dybbuk : a story made in heaven
- Earth, air, fire, and water
- East of the sun & west of the moon : a play
- East of the sun and west of the moon
- East of the sun and west of the moon
- Easy work! : an old tale
- El Cid
- El Cucuy! : a bogeyman cuento in English and Spanish
- El Enano Saltar?n : cuento de los Hermanos Grimm
- El Zipitio
- El enano saltar?n
- El gato con botas
- El solter?n y la alubia
- El tesoro
- Elephant prince : the story of Ganesh
- Eleven nature tales : a multicultural journey
- Elidor and the golden ball
- Encircled kingdom : legends and folktales of Laos
- Encyclopedia of legendary creatures
- Eric Carle's treasury of classic stories for children by Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm
- European folk and fairy tales,
- Even more short & shivery : thirty spine-tingling stories
- Even the Devil is afraid of a shrew; : a folktale of Lapland,
- Excalibur
- Fair, Brown & Trembling : an Irish Cinderella story
- Fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm
- Fairy tales from the Philippines,
- Fairy tales of Eastern Europe
- Fairy tales of India.
- Fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
- Fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
- Fat Gopal
- Fatima the spinner and the tent
- Favorite fairy tales
- Favorite fairy tales told in England; : retold from Joseph Jacobs.
- Favorite fairy tales told in Greece.
- Favorite fairy tales told in India.
- Favorite fairy tales told in Italy.
- Favorite fairy tales told in Spain.
- Favorite tales from Grimm
- Feathers and tails : animal fables from around the world
- Febold Feboldson
- Fee, fi, fo, fum; : friendly and funny giants.
- Fiesta femenina : celebrating women in Mexican folktales
- Filipino children's favorite stories
- Fin M'Coul : the giant of Knockmany Hill
- Finn Mac Cool and the small men of deeds
- Finn MacCoul and his fearless wife : a giant of a tale from Ireland
- First palm trees : an Anancy Spiderman story
- Five silly fishermen
- Five wonderful superhero friends
- Five-fold happiness : Chinese concepts of luck, prosperity, longevity, happiness and wealth
- Flapdoodle, pure nonsense from American folklore
- Folk and fairy tales from around the world.
- Folklore : an encyclopedia of beliefs, customs, tales, music, and art
- Fools and funny fellows; : more "Time to laugh" tales;
- Fortune
- Four good friends
- Four good friends : [the Bremen town musicians retold]
- Fox tale soup
- Foxy!
- Freaky tales from far and wide
- Funk & Wagnalls standard dictionary of folklore, mythology and legend
- Gaelic ghosts,
- Gershon's monster : a story for the Jewish New Year
- Ghostly animals of America
- Ghosts & specters; : ten supernatural stories
- Ghosts and spirits of many lands
- Ghosts go haunting,
- Ghosts! : ghostly tales from folklore
- Ghouls and monsters
- Gianni and the ogre.
- Giants! : stories from around the world
- Gib Morgan, oilman
- Glass slipper, gold sandal : a worldwide Cinderella
- Gobble, gobble, slip, slop : a tale of a very greedy cat
- Goddesses, heroes, and shamans : the young people's guide to world mythology
- Godiva
- Gods and goddesses
- Gods, goddesses, and monsters : a book of world mythology
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Goldilocks and the three bears : a tale moderne
- Gonin no chiisana g?ketsu
- Good wife, good wife
- Grains of pepper; : folktales from Liberia.
- Grandma Chickenlegs
- Grandma Lena's big ol' turnip
- Grandmothers' stories : wise woman tales from many cultures
- Great children's stories
- Greedy Mariani and other folktales of the Antilles.
- Grimm's fairy tales; : twenty stories.
- Hae wa tal i toen onui
- Half a loaf
- Hans Christian Andersen's The snow queen
- Hans in luck
- Hansel & Gretel
- Hansel and Gretel
- Hansel and Gretel
- Hansel and Gretel
- Hansel and Gretel
- Hansel and Gretel
- Hansel and Gretel
- Hansel and Gretel
- Hansel y Gretel
- Hauntings : ghosts and ghouls from around the world
- Hawaiian legends of tricksters and riddlers
- Hawaiian mythology.
- Hawaiian tales of heroes and champions.
- Heather and broom; : tales of the Scottish highlands
- Heaven's reward : fairy tales from China
- Henny Penny
- Henny Penny
- Henny Penny
- Henny Penny : a folk tale classic
- Henny-Penny
- Heroes and heroines
- Historias de miedo para contar en la oscuridad : recogidas del folklore popular y adaptadas por Alvin Schwartz ; con ilustraciones de Brett Helquist
- Ho Yi the archer and other classic Chinese tales
- Hoddy doddy
- Horses of myth
- How & why stories : world tales kids can read & tell
- How Wilka went to sea, and other tales from west of the Urals
- How animals saved the people : animal tales from the South
- How the Manx cat lost its tail
- How the devil gets his due.
- How the ox star fell from heaven
- How the people sang the mountains up; : how and why stories.
- How the rooster got his crown
- Hsiao tou chou nai nai ho lao hu
- I am your misfortune; : a Lithuanian folk tale
- I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive : a Zora Neale Hurston reader
- I-know-not-what, I-know-not-where : a Russian tale
- Idle Jack
- In the Land of Small Dragon : a Vietnamese folk tale
- In the Rainfield : who is the greatest?
- In the beginning : creation stories from around the world
- In the heart of the village : the world of the Indian Banyan tree
- Index to fairy tales, 1973-1977, including folklore, legends, and myths in collections, fourth supplement
- Indian myths & legends
- Indian tales : a Barefoot collection
- Indonesian fables of feats and fortunes
- Indonesian legends & folk tales
- Indonesian tales of treasures and brides
- Invisible kingdoms : Jewish tales of angels, spirits, and demons
- Iron Hans : a Grimm's fairy tale
- Iron John
- Ivanko and the dragon; : an old Ukrainian folk tale from the original collection of Ivan Rudchenko.
- Jack and the bean tree
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk : an English fairy tale
- Jack and the giant : a story full of beans
- Jack, Skinny Bones, and the golden pancakes
- Jack-o'-lantern.
- Jaejoo mahn-uhn dasut chingoo
- Jake and Honeybunch go to heaven
- James Marshall's Cinderella
- Jamie O'Rourke and the big potato : an Irish folktale
- Japanese children's favorite stories
- Japanese children's stories
- Jataka tales
- John Henry
- John Henry, an American legend
- Jojofu
- Jolie Blonde and the three H?berts : a Cajun twist to an old tale
- Journey cake, ho!
- Journeys with Elijah : eight tales of the Prophet/
- Joy to the world : Christmas stories from around the globe
- Juju-sheep and the python's moonstone, : and other moon stories from different times and different places.
- Jump again! : more adventures of Brer Rabbit
- Jump! : the adventures of Brer Rabbit
- Just a minute : a trickster tale and counting book
- Just rewards, or, Who is that man in the moon & what's he doing up there anyway?
- Kate Culhane : a ghost story
- Kate and the beanstalk
- King Arthur
- King Arthur : Excalibur unsheathed : an English legend
- King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table : retold out of the old Romances
- King Fox, and other old tales.
- King Grisly-Beard: : [a tale from the brothers Grimm]/
- King Krakus and the dragon
- King O' the Cats
- King Rooster, Queen Hen
- King Solomon and the bee
- King of the Cats : a ghost story
- King of the birds
- King of the fish
- Knights of the Round Table
- Know when to stop
- Korolu, the singing bandit
- Koshka's tales : stories from Russia
- Ky?nu Chingny?
- Kyonou et Jiknyo : le paysan et la fileuse du ciel
- La Gallinita Roja
- La Reine des Neiges : un conte
- La Tante Bouillie Rouge et le tigre
- La leyenda de Mexicatl
- La leyenda de la flor de Nochebuena
- La tetera
- La v?ritable histoire des trois petits cochons
- Lady White Snake : a tale from Chinese opera = [Bai She Chuan]
- Lancelot
- Land of the long white cloud : Maori myths, tales and legends
- Lapin plays possum : trickster tales from the Louisiana Bayou
- Larousse dictionary of world folklore
- Larousse encyclopedia of mythology.
- Lazy Jack
- Le Fr?re Soleil et sa Soeur la Lune
- Le chat bott?
- Les battoirs des lutins : Les battoirs des lutins. 2, 1 ;
- Leyendas, mitos, cuentos y otros relatos esquimales
- Life is like a chicken coop ladder : a portrait of German culture through folklore
- Ling-li and the phoenix fairy : a Chinese folktale
- Little Gray Neck : a Russian folktale
- Little Inchkin
- Little Mouse & Elephant : a tale from Turkey
- Little Parsley
- Little Plum
- Little Red Cap
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Little Rooster's diamond button
- Little book of fables
- Little brother and little sister : a fairy tale
- Little by little
- Little red hen.
- Llama and the great flood : a folktale from Peru
- Lon Po Po : a Red-Riding Hood story from China
- Look what we've brought you from Korea : crafts, games, recipes, stories, and other cultural activities from Korean Americans
- Los huevos parlantes : cuento popular del sur de los Estados Unidos
- Los siete hermanos chinos
- Los tres deseos : un viejo cuento
- Lost country life
- Luba and the wren
- Lugalbanda : the boy who got caught up in a war
- Lullaby : why the pussy-cat washes himself so often ; a folktale adapted from the Polish
- Magic & mischief : tales from Cornwall
- Magic hoofbeats : horse tales from many lands
- Magic hoofs; horse stories from many lands.
- Magic spring : a Korean folktale
- Mama God, Papa God : a Caribbean tale
- Mariana and the merchild : a folk tale from Chile
- Marko the rich and Vasily the Unlucky.
- Master Maid : a tale of Norway
- Master of all masters; : an English folktale.
- Matreshka
- Medieval myths, legends, and songs
- Medieval tales : that kids can read or tell
- Mediopollito : Half-Chicken
- Mee-an and the magic serpent : a folktale from Mali
- Men from the village deep in the mountains and other Japanese folk tales,
- Meow : cat stories from around the world
- Mermaid tales from around the world
- Michael Hague's read-to-me book of fairy tales
- Milk and honey : a year of Jewish holidays
- Miro in the kingdom of the sun
- Miss Sally Ann and the panther
- Mister Cat-and-a-half
- Mo pang 1 ; Mo pang 2
- Molly Limbo
- Molly and the giant,
- Momotar? and the island of ogres : a Japanese folktale
- Momotaro : peach boy
- Monsters of the middle ages.
- Moon rope : a Peruvian folktale = Un lazo a la luna : una leyenda peruana
- Moon was tired of walking on air
- More Celtic fairy tales
- More English fairy tales.
- More ready-to-tell tales from around the world
- More scary stories to tell in the dark
- More short & shivery : thirty terrifying tales
- More stories to solve : fifteen folktales from around the world
- More tales from Grimm
- More tales from the Welsh hills.
- Moss gown
- Mother Goose and the sly fox
- Mother and daughter tales
- Mouse match : a Chinese folktale
- Mr. Miacca; : an English folk tale,
- Mrs. Chicken and the hungry crocodile
- Multicultural folktales : stories to tell young children
- Musicians of the sun
- Muslim festival tales
- My grandmother's stories : a collection of Jewish folk tales
- My land sings : stories from the Rio Grande
- Mythical birds & beasts from many lands
- Mythology
- Mythology: The age of fable, The age of chivalry, Legends of Charlemagne
- Myths & legends explained
- Nacho and Lolita
- Nathaniel Willy, scared silly
- Nelly May has her say
- New England bean-pot; : American folk stories to read and to tell.
- Next year in Jerusalem : 3,000 years of Jewish stories
- Nicholas Pipe
- Nine color deer
- Noah's cats and the devil's fire
- Noodlehead stories : world tales kids can read & tell
- Norwegian folk tales
- Not I, not I : [the little red hen retold]
- Not one damsel in distress : world folktales for strong girls
- Nursery classics : a Galdone treasury
- Nursery tales around the world
- Ohisama to Otsukisama ni natta ky?dai
- Ol' Paul, the mighty logger : being a true account of the seemingly incredible exploits and inventions of the great Paul Bunyan
- Old Lars
- Old Letivia and the Mountain of Sorrows
- Old devil is waiting : three folktales
- On Cat Mountain
- On to Widecombe Fair
- Once there was and twice there wasn't
- Once there were no pandas : a Chinese legend
- Once under the cherry blossom tree : an old Japanese tale
- Once upon a bedtime story : classic tales