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1) English Fairy Tales

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Pub. Date

1967

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A collection of some of the most famous stories in all of English literature
Classic fairy tales endure from generation to generation. The source of countless adaptations and reimaginings, this collection is remarkable in its scale and diversity. Featuring familiar tales like “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “The History of Tom Thumb,” and “The Story of the Three Little Pigs,” as well as more...

2) Celtic Fairy Tales

Author

Jacobs, Joseph

Pub. Date

[1968]

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Twenty-six characteristic tales, both romantic and comic, from the folklore of the Celts of the British Isles, collected from both Gaelic and English speaking peasants.

3) More Celtic Fairy Tales

Author

Jacobs, Joseph

Pub. Date

[1968]

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Leprechauns, fairies, and medieval heroes figure in the strange events related in this paperback reprint of twenty Celtic folk and fairy tales.

4) 10 Bedtime Stories for Children

Author

Potter, Beatri

Pub. Date

2015

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A great collection of short stories for children.

5) The fables of Aesop

Author

Jacobs, Joseph

Pub. Date

[1964]

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Adaptations of eighty-two of Aesop's best known fables. Includes a brief history of the fables.

6) Celtic Folk & Fairy Tales: magical stories from the lands of the Celts

Author

Jacobs, Joseph

Pub. Date

2022.

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A definitive collection of stories from Celtic folklore told by a master storyteller Joseph Jacobs. Drawing on the wonderful mythology of Ireland from traditional tales handed down in Gaelic through the generations, Celtic Fairy Tales features wondrous magic, beguiling witchcraft, conniving leprechauns, terrifying sea monsters and gallant heroes. This volume features 26 charming tales, including: The Shepherd of Myddvai The Story of Deirdre The Sea-Maiden...

7) The fables of Aesop: selected, told anew and their history traced

Author

Jacobs, Joseph

Pub. Date

1966, c1894

8) The three sillies

Author

Kellogg, Steven

Pub. Date

[1999]

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A young man believes his sweetheart and her family are the three silliest people in the world until he meets three others who are even sillier.

9) Guleesh: a picture story from Ireland

Author

Stobbs, William

Pub. Date

[1972, c1971]

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A handsome peasant boy marries a beautiful princess after rescuing her from a cruel fate.

10) King of the cats: a ghost story

Author

Galdone, Paul

Pub. Date

1980.

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As the gravedigger tells his wife how a band of cats marched into the cemetery to mourn their dead king, their own cat, Old Tom, listens with a strange intensity.