Folk Tales & Fables

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Yiddish-English) $22.95

"Stop Goldilocks, go back home. Woods aren't safe for a child all alone!" But Goldilocks doesn't listen to the warning. And so begins her adventure! She walks through the woods until she comes to the bears' house and sees...

Hansel & Gretel (Kurdish-English) $22.95

At a time of a great and terrible famine, Hansel and Gretel are abandoned in the woods by their parents. Lost and hungry, they find a magical house made of sweets and cakes. But when they take their first bite a strange...

The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Latvian-English) $20.95

The three billy goats need to cross the bridge to get to the fresh, green grass. But under the bridge lives a fierce and hungry Troll. The first goat tells the Troll to wait for his brother who is much bigger than him. The...

The Wild Washerwomen (Punjabi-English) $22.95

Meet the washerwomen: Dottie, Lottie, Molly, Dolly, Winnie, Minnie, and Ernestine. They work from dusk till dawn scrubbing and soaping but their mound of grubby hankies and grimy nightshirts grows bigger by the day. When...

The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Yiddish-English) $20.95

The three billy goats need to cross the bridge to get to the fresh, green grass. But under the bridge lives a fierce and hungry Troll. The first goat tells the Troll to wait for his brother who is much bigger than him. The...

The Dragon's Tears (Bengali-English) $23.95

This moving folk story tells how the twenty four lakes of the River Min came to be called the Dragon-Æs Tears. When Chin Wah releases a golden fish he is rewarded with the gift of a magic pearl. But this is when his...

The Pied Piper (Romanian-English) $23.95

Rats! Big rats, small rats, young rats and old rats! Enter a mysterious stranger... This sensitive retelling of the famous Pied Piper legend raises many moral and social issues as well as inspiring drama and music.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Pashto-English) $23.95

"Stop Goldilocks, go back home. Woods aren't safe for a child all alone!" But Goldilocks doesn't listen to the warning. And so begins her adventure! She walks through the woods until she comes to the bears' house and sees...

The Elves and the Shoemaker (Spanish-English) $23.95

Swish, swish! They sewed. Tap, Tap! They hammered in the nails. Their little fingers worked so fast that the shoemaker could hardly believe his eyes... who are the secret helpers that come in the night? Grimm's classic tale...

The Little Red Hen and The Grains of Wheat (Croatian-English) $22.95

Little Red Hen finds some grains of wheat but when she asks the cat, the dog and the goose to help her plant them, they are all too busy. When Little Red Hen has finally grown the wheat, harvested it, turned it into flour...

Goose Fables (Slovakian-English) $22.95

This book includes two well known fables in one book wittily retold by Shaun Chatto and gloriously illustrated by Jago. Aesop-???+-?-+s The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, set in a Europe of times gone by, explores...

Lion Fables (Chinese_simplified-English) $23.95

In Aesop's 'The Lion and the Mouse' Lion spares the life of the little mouse never thinking that one day the mouse might save his life. In the Tibetan fables 'The Hare's Revenge' Hare is fed up with the bullying Lion and...

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Chinese_simplified-English) $23.95

"Stop Goldilocks, go back home. Woods aren't safe for a child all alone!" But Goldilocks doesn't listen to the warning. And so begins her adventure! She walks through the woods until she comes to the bears' house and sees...

Fox Fables (Tagalog-English) $23.95

Fables have always shown us the fundamental truths of human nature. This new dual-language series from Mantra Lingua is a fantastic way to explore the rich diversity of fables from different cultures. Each book consists of...

The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Malay-English) $20.95

The three billy goats need to cross the bridge to get to the fresh, green grass. But under the bridge lives a fierce and hungry Troll. The first goat tells the Troll to wait for his brother who is much bigger than him. The...

Lion Fables (Urdu-English) $22.95

In Aesop's 'The Lion and the Mouse' Lion spares the life of the little mouse never thinking that one day the mouse might save his life. In the Tibetan fables 'The Hare's Revenge' Hare is fed up with the bullying Lion and...

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Arabic-English) $23.95

A long time ago in Arabia, on a full night, Ali Baba noticed something very strange as he gathered firewood. A rumbling sound, like thunder, came not from the sky but from beneath the earth... Richard Holland's brilliant use...

Hansel & Gretel (Somali-English) $23.95

At a time of a great and terrible famine, Hansel and Gretel are abandoned in the woods by their parents. Lost and hungry, they find a magical house made of sweets and cakes. But when they take their first bite a strange...

Japanese Children's Favorite Stories $25.95

Singing turtles, flying farmers and a dragon who cries--these are just some of the magical characters you'll meet in this delightful collection of children's stories. This beautifully illustrated book follows our classic and...

Chinese Children's Favorite Stories $23.95

This volume of beloved Chinese stories contains a delightful selection from the rich store of Chinese folklore and legend. Discover the many delightful animal characters as well as Chang-E, the famous Eight Immortals, and...