Excerpt: "Once upon a time a bear married a woman, and they had one son. When the boy was yet a little fellow he begged very hard to be allowed to leave the bear's cave, and to go out into the world……続きを見る
22 West African folk and children's stories, translated and retold by R Sutherland-Rattray.
This volume recounts 22 West African Hausa tales of the origin of the spider, of beautiful maidens, of how……続きを見る
An African Chief has a beautiful daughter. When she is of marrying age, the chief sets a challenge and the winner gets her hand in marriage. The hartebeest and the chameleon are the final contenders……続きを見る
A WEST AFRICAN ANANSI TALE - Anansi, the trickster spider, planned a scheme and lures Mr Lion into a trap and ties him to a tree. A passerby sees the ludicrous situation and makes fun of Mr Lion. Bu……続きを見る
An ENGLISH Folktale - a young man leaves home to seek his fame and fortune. On his journey he comes across groups of foolish people and three silly situations. Baba Indaba believes the tale he is ab……続きを見る
Conkiajgharuna is borne into a wealthy family which loses their fortune. She is reduced to being a servant and begging in rags to stay alive, but is that the end of her story? Baba Indaba believes t……続きを見る
The Zulu legend of how a maiden of the ancient race created the stars and how the Milky Way came into being. The Zulu tribe, or Amazulu, are indigenous to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in South Africa. In the……続きを見る
Baba Indaba narrates the story of the Porcelain Pagoda. A story about the high pagoda that stood outside the Red Bird Gate, the southern entrance to the city of Chin-ling. In the light of the full m……続きを見る
BABA INDABA (pronounced Baaba Indaaba) lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East ……続きを見る
Baba Indaba narrates this folktale from the San Bushmen of Namibia, South Africa, of how a maiden from the early races who inhabited the earth before men, created the stars. You'll have to read the ……続きを見る
"The High History of the Holy Graal" was written by an unknown author (and translated from French by Sebastian Evans in 1898) and it is considered to be one of the least–canonical of the Arthurian r……続きを見る
Herein are 88 illustrated short stories for children with most of the stories suffixed by a moral. In this volume you will find stories like:
The Innkeeper
The Brook and the Waterwheel
Crooked Horn ……続きを見る
UNCLE REMUS AND BRER RABBIT is an illustrated volume containing 11 adventures and escapades of Brer Rabbit and his friends in their Southern plantation setting. They are narrated to a young audience……続きを見る
Within this small book you will find six distinctive folk tales from the ancient land of Egypt translated and edited by that giant of Egyptology – W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853 – 1942). Petrie was a p……続きを見る
Here you will find the Jungle Book of Australia with 31 stories like the galah and oolah the lizard, bahloo the moon and the daens, the origin of the narran lake, weedah the mocking bird, the gwinee……続きを見る
It is said that Filipinos have always been awed by the fairy tales and epics from other lands. This is to be expected as the Philippines has been a cross-roads on the fabled Spice Route for hundreds……続きを見る
At the end of his highly successful English Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs compiled Celtic Fairy Tales, a book of 26 Celtic children’s stories from around Wales and Ireland. Celtic Fairy Tales tells of ……続きを見る
Within this little volume you will find 10 unique folk tales and children's stories from the African mountain Kingdom of Lesotho. Here you will find the story of Takane, who, despite having an arran……続きを見る
Herein are 32 Victorian Christmas poems and stories for children compiled from various sources by John Halsted of Abela Publishing. The 16 stories are drawn from that bountiful library of French, Sp……続きを見る
A GREAT READ FOR KIDS! In this volume you will find 14 of the most popular Norse Myths and Tales rewritten especially for children and Young Adults, retold by Mary Foster and Mabel Cummings - tales ……続きを見る
From childhood we listen to tales of ghosts, banshees, haunted castles and mischievous sprites. But it is not until you immerse yourself in Gaelic literature that you realise what a heritage awaits,……続きを見る
The 40 legends, fairy tales and folklore stories in this book belong to the Yoruba. They relate the adventures of men and animals, and try to explain the mysteries of NatureーWhy Women have Long Hai……続きを見る
Myths and Folklore of Irelandis the first of many works published by the renowned American translator Jeremiah Curtin. The volume is comprised of 23 Irish myths, in which the legends of Fin MacCumha……続きを見る
In the 19thC there were three master compilers and publishers of children’s Fairy Tales – Edmund Dulac, Andrew Lang and the Grimm Bothers. This is a collection of folk and fairy tales from Belgium, ……続きを見る
Britomart is a female knight, the embodiment and champion of Chastity. She is young and beautiful, and falls in love with Artegal upon first seeing his face in her father's magic mirror. Though ther……続きを見る
VINLAND, Claudia and Cabo de la Arenas have been but a few of the names given previously to Cape Cod. As far back as 985AD the Cape had been visited by the likes of Leif Eiriksson, although this is ……続きを見る
This is a collection of Native American folklore, retold for children and young adults, compiled over a century ago. Within you will find stories like Snowbird and the Water Tiger, The Coyote or Pra……続きを見る
Thirteen South African children's stories retold by Arthur Owen Vaughan. A GREAT READ FOR CHILDREN!
In this volume you will find 13 uniquely South African folk tales. Stories of Why the Baboon has t……続きを見る
"Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers" by Various Authors compiled by Laura Valentine.
In compiling this volume of Eastern Tales, the Editor, Laura Valentine, has been careful to select only those be……続きを見る
The Publishers offer in this volume well known and long loved and extremely well illustrated stories to their young readers. These tales have had delighted the children of many generations and will ……続きを見る
