Children's Books

A Great Emergency and Other Tales

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

A Great Emergency and Other Tales is a collection of short stories for children written by Juliana Horatia Ewing , an English writer of children's stories. Her writings display a sympathetic insight i..

Australian Legendary Tales

 Australian Legendary Tales Folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies is a collection of fairy and folk tales written by K. Langloh Parker, a South Australian born writer who liv..

Where Animals Talk - West African Folk Lore Tales

Robert Hamill Nassau

Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales is a collection of folklore written by Robert Hamill Nassau, an American presbyterian missionary who spent forty years in Africa. He is also the author..

The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in December 1918. The tale is based on the Aesop fable, "T..

The Lilac Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, ..

The Birthday Party - A Story for Little Folks

Oliver Optic

The Birthday Party:  A Story for Little Folks is a children's story written by Oliver Optic, a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.Flora Lee's birth..

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

E. M. Berens

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome is a handbook on mythology written by E. M. Berens, a classical scholar and author who wrote several books exploring the mythology and oral traditions of a..

Japanese Fairy Tales

Yei Theodora Ozaki

This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami ..