Red Fairy Book

Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs.A collection of folk and fairy tales from the Emerald Isle.Featured on Red Fairy Book.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Golden Spears, and other Fairy Tales by Edmund Leamy.Featured on Red Fairy Book.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Grimm's Fairy Stories by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm.Fairies, Evil Step Mothers, Enchanted Forests, Golden Geese, Poor Little Children, Fairy Godmothers, Magic wells, and oh, so many many more of the things that make those well loved stories thrilling to tell and listen to are in this little book. And there are a few that you may never have heard of before. just to spice things up a bit. Some are short and some are long but all have a big helping of magic and wonder. Do you like stories like this? well, here you are!Featured on Red Fairy Book.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth W. Grierson.This book of Scottish fairy tales tells of brownies, fairies, and apparitions, bogies, witches, kelpies, and tales told about a mysterious region under the sea, "far below the abode of fishes," where the Mermaids and Mermen live. There are stories of the Brownie, magical animal tales where the animals are endowed with the power of speech, tales of enchantment, and legendary stories, half real, half mythical. The author has tried to make a representative collection from these different classes of Scottish Folklore, choosing the tales that are the least well known.Featured on Red Fairy Book.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by Mrs. Dent, Mrs. Lang, Miss Eleanor Sellar, Miss Blackley, and Miss Hang. 'The Three Sons of Hali' is from the last century 'Cabinet des Fees,' a very large collection. The French author may have had some Oriental original before him in parts; at all events he copied the Eastern method of putting tale within tale, like the Eastern balls of carved ivory. The stories, as usual, illustrate the method of popular fiction. A certain number of incidents are shaken into many varying combinations, like the fragments of coloured glass in the kaleidoscope.Featured on Red Fairy Book.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Norwegian Fairy Book by Klara Stroebe.These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, have been handed down by hinds and huntsmen, wood choppers and fisher folk. They are men who led a hard and lonely life amid primitive surroundings. The Norwegian Fairy Book has an appeal for one and all, since it is a book in which the mirror of fairy-tale reflects human yearnings and aspirations, human loves, ambitions and disillusionments, in an imaginatively glamored, yet not distorted form.Featured on Red Fairy Book.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Constance Cary Harrison."And now, mamma, until your tea is ready, we know what you must do," said the children, in a breath. "Tell us a story—a 'real, truly' fairy tale, about a giant and a dwarf, lots and lots of fairies, a prince and a beautiful princess with hair to her very feet, a champion with a magic sword, a dragon-chariot, a witch dressed in snake-skin—and, if you can, an ogre. Don't punish anybody but the witch and the ogre; and please don't have any moral, only let everybody 'live in peace and die in a pot of grease,' at the end of it." "To be sure, we know most of mamma's stories by heart," said the sage elder of nine. "If she could only make up some new ones that aren't in any of our books! Or else, mamma, tell us something you heard a little bit of, long, long ago, from your nurse, and then make up the rest. But whatever one you tell, we'll be sure to like it anyhow."Featured on Red Fairy Book.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Firelight Fairy Book by Henry Beston.One pleasant summer day, as the fairy-tale lover sat reading a book beneath the low spreading branches of an oak tree, he heard a hum of wings, and looking up startled from his book, he discovered the Fairy Goldenwand standing close by. "Are you still seeking new fairy tales?" said the Fairy Goldenwand. "Will you write them down if I tell you some really new ones?" said the Fairy. "And I'll put them into a book;..." "Oh, that will be fine!" said the Fairy Goldenwand. "I knew you wouldn't mind my appearing so suddenly. Ever so many things have happened in Fairyland since the last books were written, and we all think it's a dreadful shame that children have n't heard about them. Just imagine boys and girls not knowing about the adventures of the Prince in Lantern Land! Shall I tell you the story?"Featured on Red Fairy Book.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

How the Fairy Violet Lost and Wond Her Wings.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book. Courage, youth, beauty, kindness, have many trials, but they always win the battle; while witches, giants, unfriendly cruel people, are on the losing hand. So it ought to be, and so, on the whole, it is and will be; and that is all the moral of fairy tales. We cannot all be young, alas! and pretty, and strong; but nothing prevents us from being kind, and no kind man, woman, or beast or bird, ever comes to anything but good in these oldest fables of the world.Featured on Red Fairy Book.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.