18 books like Dear Mili
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
No longer wanted by their masters, a donkey, dog, cat, and rooster set out for Bremen to become musicians
Shares: Cuentos de hadas, Tales, Spanish language materials, Folklore
Japanese Fairy Tales
Japanese folktales are somewhat of a loaded term. In commonplace usage, it signifies a certain set of well-known classic tales, with a vague distinction of whether they fit the rigorous definition of folktale or not.
The admixed imposters are literate written pieces, dating back to the Muromachi period (14th-16th centuries) or even earlier times in the Middle Ages. These would not normally…
Shares: Legends, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction
Le petit chaperon rouge
Caperucita Roja lleva una torta y un tarrito de mantequilla hacia la casa de su abuela, pero en el camino se encuentra con el Lobo. Por trampas, el Lobo se las come a Caperucita Roja y su abuela.
Little Red Riding Hood is taking a cake and little pot of butter to her grandmother's house, but on the way she meets the Wolf. By trickery, the Wolf eats both Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother.
Shares: Cuentos de hadas, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction
Buri and the Marrow
An old woman and her daughter foil the attempts of several hungry animals to eat her while journeying across the forest.
Shares: Tales, Mothers and daughters, Folklore, Fairy Tales
The Crimson Fairy Book
Twenty four fairy tales from the folklore of Hungary, Russia, Rumania, Serbia, Tunis, Finland, Iceland, Japan, and Sicily.
Shares: Tales, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction
The Pink Fairy Book
A collection of more than thirty fairy tales gathered from all over the world.
Shares: Tales, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction
Lille pige med svovlstikkerne
Relates how the wares of the little match girl illuminated her cold world.
Shares: Girls, Children, Death, Folklore
The Green Fairy Book
Fairy tales gathered from the folklore of Russia, Germany, Italy, France, China, Scotland, and England.
Shares: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction
The Brown Fairy Book
Thirty-two fairy tales from the folklore of Africa, Australia, Brazil, India, New Caledonia, and Persia.
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The Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty told at length, with the hundred years of sleep and the family the prince has to leave, and other tales retold by a scholar-novelist for children. Quiller-Couch edited the Oxford Book of English Verse and wrote as a professor who never lost the storyteller's ear. The additions to Perrault are made with an obvious relish for the parts he thought too short.
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Rotkäppchen
Charles Perrault’s version of the folk tale _Petite chaperon rouge_ was retold in German by the Grimm Brothers as _Rotkäppchen_, and retold in many English translations as _Little Red Riding Hood_.
A little girl on her way to visit her grandmother meets a hungry wolf in the forest.
Shares: Cuentos de hadas, Tales, Folklore, Fairy Tales
The glass slipper
In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.
Shares: Children, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction
Die schönsten Märchen
Though the emperor banishes the nightingale in preference for a jeweled mechanical imitation, the little bird remains faithful and returns years later when the emperor is near death and no one else can help him.
Shares: Cuentos de hadas, Fairy Tales
The Orange Fairy Book
A collection of fairy tales brought and translated from Rhodesia, Uganda, and Punjaub.
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The Grey Fairy Book
A collection of thirty-five fairy tales from the folklore of Lithuania, Africa, Germany, Greece, and France, and other parts of the world.
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The girl who loved wild horses
Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.
Shares: Girls, Spanish language materials, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction
The golden key
The adventurous wanderings of a boy and girl to find the keyhole which fits the rainbow's golden key.
Shares: Girls, Children, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction
Momo oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte
The Neverending Story is Michael Ende's best-known book, but Momo, published six years earlier, is the all-ages fantasy novel that first won him wide acclaim. After the sweet-talking gray men come to town, life becomes terminally efficient. Can Momo, a young orphan girl blessed with the gift of listening, vanquish the ashen-faced time thieves before joy vanishes forever?
Shares: Girls, Children, Fairy Tales, Children's fiction