The Royal Book of Oz [by Ruth Plumly Thompson]

The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written by Ruth Plumly Thompson after L. Frank Baum's death. Although Baum was credited as the author, it was written entirely by Thompson. The Scarecrow is upset when Professor Wogglebug tells him that he has no family, so he goes to where Dorothy Gale found him to trace his "roots." Then he vanishes from the face of Oz.  Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion mount a search for their friend, but when that is successful, they will need to become a rescue party!

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The Royal Book of Oz [by Ruth Plumly Thompson]

And Brer Rabbit [by Joel Chandler Harris]

Uncle Remus' stories feature a trickster hero called Br'er Rabbit , who uses his wits to slide out of trouble and gain the advantage over the slower witted other animals, many of whom are trying to eat him. Br'er Rabbit stories were mostly collected directly from the afro-american oral story-telling tradition and are said to be a direct interpretation of Yoruba tales of Hare. This book contains 11 unique stories and was the last one published before the author's death. This edition is read by Phil Chenevert.

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Uncle Remus And Brer Rabbit [by Joel Chandler Harris]

Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales [by Joseph Jacobs]

A collection of folk and fairy tales from the Emerald Isle. There is an earlier version of this book - Celtic Fairy Tales, but this recording was done from a different book in Project Gutenberg.

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Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales [by Joseph Jacobs]

Folklore of the Santal Parganas [by Cecil Henry Bompas]

This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its Preface implies, this collection is intended to give an unadulterated view of a culture through its folklore. It contains a variety of stories about different aspects of life, including family and marriage, religion, and work. In this first volume, taken from Part I, each story is centered around a particular human character. These range from the charmingly clever (as in the character, The Oilman, in the story, The Oilman and His Sons) to the tragically comical (as in the character, Jhore, in the story Bajun and Jhore). In later parts, the stories will focus on other subjects, including spirits, animals, and legends from this culture.

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Folklore of the Santal Parganas [by Cecil Henry Bompas]

The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy [by Padraic Colum]

Also known as "The Children's Homer," this is Irish writer Padraic Colum's retelling of the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for young people. Colum's rich, evocative prose narrates the travails of Odysseus, King of Ithaca: his experiences fighting the Trojan War, and his ten years' journey home to his faithful wife Penelope and his son Telemachus.

Read by Elizabeth Klett.

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The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy [by Padraic Colum]

Polish Fairy Tales [by A. J. Glinski]

These are selections from a large collection made by A. J. Glinski, printed at Wilna in 1862. These fairy tales come from a far past and may even date from primitive times. They represent the folklore current among the peasantry of the Eastern provinces of Poland, and also in those provinces usually known as White Russia. They were set down by Glinski just as they were related to him by the peasants. In the translation it was of course necessary to shorten them considerably; the continual repetition—however quaint and fascinating in the original—cannot easily be reproduced. Portions, too, are often told in rhyme, or in a species of rhyming prose that we associate with the ancient ballad. The obvious likenesses between these and the folklore of Germany, the Celtic nations, or to the Indian fairy-tales, will strike every listener.

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Polish Fairy Tales [by A. J. Glinski]

Celtic Fairy Tales [Selected and Edited by Joseph Jacobs]

Celtic Fairy Tales is a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories from Ireland and Scotland selected and edited by Joseph Jacobs and read by LibriVox Volunteers. 

"Say this three times, with your eyes shut 'Mothuighim boladh an Éireannaigh bhinn bhreugaigh faoi m'fhóidín dúthaigh.' And you will see, what you will see"  A loose translation of this Gaelic phrase is "I sense the smell of a sweet, enchanting Irishman around my dear homeplace.

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Celtic Fairy Tales [Selected and Edited by Joseph Jacobs]

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The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles [by Padraic Colum]

This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Golden Fleece. He also includes the stories ofAtalanta,Heracles, Perseus, 
Theseus, and others. 

Read by Elizabeth Klett.

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The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles [by Padraic Colum]

Sylvie and Bruno[ by Lewis Carroll]

The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fantasy world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairytale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's Alice books, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality. This book is the first of two volumes and the two intertwining stories are brought to a close in the second volume, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded.

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Sylvie and Bruno[ by Lewis Carroll]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [by Lewis Carroll]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends. The tale plays with logic in ways that have given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the "literary nonsense" genre, and its narrative course and structure have been enormously influential, especially in the fantasy genre. 

Read by Eric Leach

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [by Lewis Carroll]

The Poor Little Rich Girl [by Eleanor Gates]

The Poor Little Rich Girl is a children’s fantasy about a little girl named Gwendolyn who is lonely and longs for a friend. But she is isolated by rich parents who ignore her and left to the care of servants who are indifferent. Her nanny’s carelessness with some medicine plunges Gwendolyn into a bewildering world in which metaphors literally come to life.

Read by Susan Umpleby.

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The Poor Little Rich Girl [by Eleanor Gates]

The Fisherman and His Soul [by Oscar Wilde]

”The Fisherman and his Soul” is a fairy tale first published in November of 1891 in Wilde’s “A House of Pomegranates”. It tells of a fisherman who nets and falls in love with a mermaid. But to be with her he must shed his soul, which goes off to have adventures of its own. Will forbidden love endure?

Read by Greg Margarite 

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The Fisherman and His Soul [by Oscar Wilde]

South American Jungle Tales [by Horacio Quiroga]

The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact with on his farm in Misiones, a region of jungle in Uruguay along the banks of the Upper Parana river. Each story quickly evolves into a fantastical realm where the various animals take on familiar human characteristics. These stories, of course, are a metaphor for how man interacts with nature. They are used to show how human beings are an integral part of a greater ecosystem; and can either chose to exploit it to his detriment, or to live in harmony within it.

(Translated by Arthur Livingston.)
Read by James K. White

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South American Jungle Tales [by Horacio Quiroga]

Fairy Tales from Brazil [by Elsie Spicer Eells]

This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore.

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Fairy Tales from Brazil [by Elsie Spicer Eells]

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils [by Selma Lagerlöf]

Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Price in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is a famous work of fiction by Selma Lagerlöf, published in two parts in 1906 and 1907. The background for publication was a commission from the National Teachers Association in 1902 to write a geography reader for the public schools. "She devoted three years to Nature study and to familiarizing herself with animal and bird life. She has sought out hitherto unpublished folklore and legends of the different provinces. These she has ingeniously woven into her story." (From translator Velma Swanston Howard's introduction.

Read by Lars Rolander.

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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils [by Selma Lagerlöf]

Old Peter's Russian Tales [by Arthur Ransome]

Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public domain in the United States. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively well-known, others less so. Ransome spent some years in Russia as a newspaper correspondent for the Daily News and the Manchester Guardian and was peripherally involved in the revolution. In the late twenties he married Evgenia Shvelpina, Trotsky's secretary, retired from newspapers and started writing his children’s books.

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Old Peter's Russian Tales [by Arthur Ransome]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [by F. Scott Fitzgerald]

The curious Case of Benjamin Button, a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, now a major motion picture, features Benjamin Button, who, born as an old man much to the dismay and chagrin of his father and family Doctor, ages backwards until he leaves this world as a newborn.

Read by Mike Vendetti.


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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [by F. Scott Fitzgerald]

The One Eyed Griffin and Other Tales [by Herbert Escott Inman]

A collection of children's fairytales including the tale of how the griffin lost one eye and Can't Shan't and Don't Care came to be giants. 

Read by Sorbet 87

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The One Eyed Griffin and Other Tales [by Herbert Escott Inman]