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Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children
by Mabel PowersStories the Iroquois Tell Their Children, is a collection of tales from northeast Native American people who formed the Iroquois Confederacy. Written by Mabel Powers, some of the stories in this collection include How the woman overcame the bear, Why the woodpecker bores for its food, Why the ice roof fell, Why the chipmunk has black stripes, Why c..
Fairy Tales from Brazil
by Elsie Spicer EellsFairy Tales from Brazil, is a collection of tales of Brazil compiled by Elsie Spicer Eells. Most of the stories are told about nature of animals and how they got their identity. This collection contains fifteen tales and notable among them are How the rabbit lost his tail, How the toad got his bruises, How the tiger got his stripes, Why th..
The Firelight Fairy Book
by Henry BestonThe Firelight Fairy Book is a collection of new fairy tales written by the American naturalist Henry Beston, who came to limelight after publishing his book “The outermost house”. Most of his works were based on the nature, notable among them are The Starlight Wonder Book, The Living Age, Northern Farm: A Chronicle of Maine, Henry Beston's Fairy Ta..
The Fairy Book
by Dinah Maria Mulock CraikThe Fairy Book is a wonderful collection of popular fairy tales written by Perrault, Madame d'Aulnois, and Grimm. This collection is compiled by the English novelist Dinah Maria Craik, whose numerous writings in the forms of sketches, tales, and poems include The Man in Green, The Emigrant's Wives. A Passage from Real Life, Great and Little Heroine..
Folk Tales Every Child Should Know
by Hamilton Wright MabieFolk tales have been narrated rather recorded on the basis of immense belief, fancy and superstitions of human experience. Unlike modern stories, Folk tales had not been carefully written to make the story interesting. Often they were conceived out of a single incident of the original narrator experienced in his life and which were retold for ge..
Legends That Every Child Should Know
by Hamilton Wright MabieWords are not made like an automobile component, rather they were evolved gradually and grown out of compulsion to narrate and share the experience of an individual to communicate to the peers. In the ancient days countless stories were told by the peasant mothers to their children, who were not having the luxury of any sort of media like newspa..
Myths That Every Child Should Know
by Hamilton Wright MabieMyths are simply the blind beliefs of our ancestors which had been passed on to generations. While it cannot be simply ruled out as superstitious beliefs, it did help the ancestors to convey their experiences. Story telling was the only thing for our ancestors to convey the world about their experiences. While we write scientific books every yea..
Favorite Fairy Tales
by Logan MarshallFavorite Fairy Tales is a collection of most popular fairy tales from around the world, compiled by The American biographer Logan Marshall, remembered for his melodramatic work of The Sinking of the Titanic. His notable other works include The tragic story of the Empress of Ireland, Life of Theodore Roosevelt, The story of the Panama Canal, A hi..