The most popular folk tales books

Folk tales are the stories ordinary people told each other. Tricksters outwit the powerful, fools turn out wise, and animals talk their way out of trouble. Every culture has its own, passed down by word of mouth before anyone wrote them down. Collections come from all around the world.

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Swamp Angel
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Swamp Angel

Anne Isaacs

1994 · 1995 edition

40 pages

Shadow
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Shadow

Blaise Cendrars

Published 1982

40 pages

Pirateology
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Pirateology

Captain William Lubber

Published 2006

32 pages

Afterglow
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Afterglow

Karsten Knight

Published 2013

336 pages

The Coyote Road Trickster Tales
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The Coyote Road Trickster Tales

Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, Pat Murphy, Steve Berman, Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Published 2007

523 pages

Jangles
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Jangles

David Shannon

2012 · 2016 edition

32 pages

Pecos Bill
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Pecos Bill

Steven Kellogg

Published 1986

48 pages

The Mitten
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The Mitten

Jim Aylesworth

Published 2009

32 pages

Journey to the West
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Journey to the West

Wu Cheng'en, Yanbo Shi, Guoqing Yin

1977 · 1978 edition

448 pages