This is a collection of comfortable reading copies, not critical editions. Each tale follows a recognizable public-domain version and includes a pointer to the collection, author, editor, or translator behind it. The text may be cleaned up and divided for screens; substantial retellings are identified as such.
- Korean Fairy Tales — William Elliot Griffis, 1922
The public-domain text of “The Unmannerly Tiger” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
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- The Scottish Fairy Book — Elizabeth W. Grierson, 1910
The public-domain text of “The Wee Bannock” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
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- West African Folk-Tales — William H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair, 1917
The public-domain text of “Ii. How Wisdom Became The Property Of The Human Race” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
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- Korean Fairy Tales — William Elliot Griffis, 1922
The public-domain text of “The Rabbit’S Eyes” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
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- Korean Fairy Tales — William Elliot Griffis, 1922
The public-domain text of “A Bridegroom For Miss Mole” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
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- Japanese Fairy Tales — Yei Theodora Ozaki, 1903
The public-domain text of “The Tongue-Cut Sparrow” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
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- Indian Fairy Tales — Joseph Jacobs, 1892
The public-domain text of “Ix. The Tiger, The Brahman, And The Jackal” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
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- Popular Tales from the Norse — Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe; translated by George Webbe Dasent, 1859
The public-domain text of “The Three Billy-Goats Gruff” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: Source edition published in the nineteenth century and identified as public domain by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fairy Book — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1863
The public-domain text of “The Bremen Town Musicians” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
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- The Story of the Three Little Pigs — L. Leslie Brooke, 1904
The public-domain text of “The Story Of The Three Little Pigs” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
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- The Chinese Fairy Book — Richard Wilhelm, editor; Frederick H. Martens, translator, 1921
The public-domain text of “The King Of The Ants” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: Source edition published in 1921 and identified as public domain by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Родное слово для детей младшего возраста · Rodnoye slovo dlya detey mladshego vozrasta — Konstantin Ushinsky, 1864
A close English translation of Ushinsky’s compact public-domain Russian reading-book version of “Репка,” divided into five screen pages. The cumulative repetitions are retained; no story episode has been added.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: The linked Russian National Electronic Library scan is the 1864 edition of Ushinsky’s reading book and is public domain by age. The displayed English translation was prepared for this collection. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain text is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The fable is commonly catalogued as Perry 226.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain text is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The fable is commonly catalogued as Perry 150.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain text is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The fable is commonly known as “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” and catalogued as Perry 210.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Japanese Fairy Tales — Yei Theodora Ozaki, 1908
The public-domain text of “Momotaro, Or The Story Of The Son Of A Peach” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1908 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Korean Tales — Horace Newton Allen, 1889
The public-domain text of “Hyung Bo And Nahl Bo;” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1889 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Jataka Tales — Ellen C. Babbitt, 1912
The public-domain text of “The Monkey And The Crocodile” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1912 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Chinese Fairy Book — Richard Wilhelm; translated by Frederick H. Martens, 1921
The public-domain text of “The Herd Boy And The Weaving Maiden” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1921 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Grimm’s Fairy Stories — Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; translated by Marion Edwardes, 1912
The public-domain text of “Cinderella” is reproduced directly from this edition. Gutenberg illustration placeholders were omitted; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1912 English source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
A reading copy of Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain text. Line wrapping and page divisions are editorial; the verse following the prose fable in this edition is omitted.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
A reading copy of Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain text; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
A reading copy of Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain text; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
A reading copy of Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain text; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
The public-domain text of “The Dog and the Shadow” is reproduced directly from this edition. Page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
The public-domain text of “The Wolf and the Lamb” is reproduced directly from this edition; page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image8.png), 53103 (images/image42.jpg), and 39187 (images/i_017.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
The public-domain text of “The Fox and the Stork” is reproduced directly from this edition; page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image125.png), 53103 (images/image21.jpg), and 39187 (images/i_216.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
The public-domain text of “The Crow and the Pitcher” is reproduced directly from this edition; page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image50.png), 53103 (images/image32.jpg), and 39187 (images/i_108.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
The public-domain text of “The Goose With the Golden Eggs” is reproduced directly from this edition; page divisions are editorial. The cover and turning-point illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image162.png) and 19994 (images/i063.jpg). No suitable third source plate was found, so the ending is a new collection illustration in a historically appropriate Mediterranean setting.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
The public-domain text of “The Wind and the Sun” is reproduced directly from this edition; page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image167.png), 53103 (images/image10.jpg), and 39187 (images/i_095.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
The public-domain text of “The Dog in the Manger” is reproduced directly from this edition; page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image87.png), 53103 (images/image14.jpg), and 11339 (images/089.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
The public-domain text of “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” is reproduced directly from this edition; page divisions are editorial. The cover and turning-point illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 39187 (images/i_039.jpg) and 19994 (images/i071_th.jpg). No suitable third source plate was found, so the ending is a new collection illustration in a historically appropriate ancient Mediterranean setting.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
The public-domain text of “The Bundle of Sticks” is reproduced directly from this edition; page divisions are editorial. The cover comes from Project Gutenberg ebook 39187 (images/i_164.jpg). No other suitable source plates were found, so the turning point and ending are new collection illustrations in a historically appropriate ancient Mediterranean setting.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image46.png), 11339 (images/110.jpg), and 39187 (images/i_075.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 53103 (images/image7.jpg) and 19994 (images/i046_th.jpg and images/i047_th.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image135.png), 11339 (images/082.jpg), and 39187 (images/i_188.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image67.png and its edition-supplied detail images/image67a.png) and 39187 (images/i_220.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image95.png), 19994 (images/i057_th.jpg), and 39187 (images/i_160.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image21.png), 11339 (images/150.jpg), and 39187 (images/i_014.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The cover and turning-point illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 39187 (images/i_067.jpg) and 19994 (images/i105_th.jpg). No suitable third source plate was found, so the ending is a new collection illustration in a historically appropriate Mediterranean setting.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image68.png), 11339 (images/136.jpg), and 39187 (images/i_210.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image91.png) and 53103 (images/image35.jpg and images/image36.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The cover comes from Project Gutenberg ebook 39187 (images/i_085.jpg). No other suitable source plates were found, so the turning point and ending are new collection illustrations in a historically appropriate Mediterranean setting.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image112.png and its edition-supplied detail images/image112a.png) and 39187 (images/i_272.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image128.png), 11339 (images/238.jpg), and 19994 (images/i077_th.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The cover is the matching “Ass and the Charger” plate from Project Gutenberg ebook 18732 (images/image29.png). No other suitable source plates were found, so the turning point and ending are new collection illustrations in a historically appropriate ancient Greek setting.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 18732 (images/image141.png) and 11339 (images/165-2.jpg and images/165-3.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fables of Aesop — Aesop; selected and retold by Joseph Jacobs, 1894
Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain prose is reproduced directly; only page divisions are editorial. The three public-domain illustrations come from Project Gutenberg ebooks 11339 (images/097.jpg), 19994 (images/i081_th.jpg), and 39187 (images/i_174.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1894 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Chinese Fairy Book — Richard Wilhelm, editor; Frederick H. Martens, translator, 1921
A reading copy of the public-domain story “The Lady of the Moon”; line wrapping and page divisions are editorial. Chang’e is closely associated with the Mid-Autumn Festival, when families gather under the full moon and eat mooncakes, although mooncakes do not appear in this particular telling. The cassia-tree illustration is reproduced from the cited edition; the cover and final scene are new collection artwork.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1921 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter — Anonymous; illustrated Japanese manuscript, Edo period, 17th century
A concise reading-copy retelling of the public-domain Taketori Monogatari, with the Library of Congress illustrated manuscript as its source pointer. It is presented as a retelling rather than a transcription of that Japanese manuscript.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The underlying tale dates to the early Heian period, and the linked 17th-century illustrated manuscript is made available by the Library of Congress as a public-domain historical work. This English reading copy is newly written for the collection. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Nō Plays of Japan — Seami; translated by Arthur Waley, 1921
A concise reading-copy retelling of Arthur Waley’s public-domain translation of the Noh play Hagoromo. The source preserves the fuller dramatic dialogue, chorus, stage directions, and dance chant. The cover path contains the original “Angel in Hagoromo” plate from that edition; two additional scene images are still required before publication.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: Arthur Waley’s 1921 English translation is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. This concise reading copy is newly written for the collection. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Korean Tales — Horace Newton Allen, 1889
A concise reading-copy retelling following the public-domain “Chun Yang, The Faithful Dancing-Girl Wife.” It is one interpretation of the much-retold Chunhyang tradition, not an authoritative text of the pansori cycle.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: The 1889 English collection is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. This concise reading copy is newly written for the collection. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Fairies — Im Bang and Yi Ryuk; translated by James S. Gale, 1913
A reading copy of Im Bang’s public-domain “A Story of the Fox,” with page divisions and light line-wrap cleanup. Korean fox-spirit traditions have many variants; this telling involves a fox transformed into a woman but does not describe nine visible tails.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: The 1913 English translation is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Little Gingerbread Man — George Haven Putnam, 1910
This reading copy follows Putnam’s public-domain text, lightly shortening the middle of the chase. Illustration captions were omitted, the display title was shortened to its familiar form, and page divisions are editorial. The three original illustrations are “Cook makes the Gingerbread Man” (images/i005tn.jpg), “The Gingerbread Man Escapes” (images/i012.jpg), and “The end of the story” (images/i025.jpg) from Project Gutenberg ebook 25877.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1910 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales — Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; edited by Frances Jenkins Olcott, 1922
The public-domain text of “The Elves and the Shoemaker” is reproduced from this edition with one clothing-making passage lightly condensed. Illustration captions were omitted; page divisions are editorial. The cover uses the edition’s plate “The Elves Began to Stitch, Sew, and Hammer” (images/i_103.jpg) from Project Gutenberg ebook 52521. No other story-specific plates were found, so the two interior scenes are new collection illustrations guided by that plate’s period and visual language.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1922 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Grimm’s Fairy Stories — Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; translated by Marion Edwardes, 1912
This reading copy follows Marion Edwardes’s public-domain text, lightly condensing repeated episodes. Page divisions are editorial. The source edition supplies two story-specific drawings: the maiden with the little man (images/175.png), used as the cover, and the little man stamping in rage (images/177.png), used for the ending. No third story-specific illustration was found, so the spinning-room interior is a new collection illustration guided by those drawings’ ink style.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1912 English source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Aunt Friendly’s Picture Book — Hans Christian Andersen; anonymous English adaptation, 1867
This reading copy follows the concise public-domain adaptation printed in “Aunt Friendly’s Picture Book,” with connecting passages lightly condensed; it is not presented as a full translation of Andersen’s Danish text. Page divisions are editorial. Original plates “The Ugly Duckling” (images/illus_062.jpg), “Chasing the swan” (images/illus_064.jpg), and “The swan” (images/illus_069.jpg) come from Project Gutenberg ebook 25442.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The nineteenth-century source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Favorite Fairy Tales — Traditional tale; arranged by Logan Marshall, 1917
This is a lightly shortened reading copy of the public-domain version arranged by Logan Marshall. Repeated passages and book illustration captions were omitted; page divisions are editorial. Original illustrations “Jack and the Beanstalk” (images/page_158.png), “The ogre’s wife hid Jack in the oven” (images/page_161.png), and “Down Came the Beanstalk, Down Came the Ogre” (images/page_164.jpg) come from Project Gutenberg ebook 20748.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1917 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Art of the Story-Teller — Marie L. Shedlock; tale by Hans Christian Andersen, 1915
The public-domain English text printed by Marie L. Shedlock is reproduced directly; one obvious transcription error is repaired, and italics and page divisions are editorially normalized.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 5957 as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault — Charles Perrault; translated by Robert Samber and revised by J. E. Mansion, 1922
The public-domain Samber–Mansion text is reproduced directly, including Perrault’s ending and moral; only page divisions and typographic styling are editorial. The cover reproduces Harry Clarke’s plate captioned “He asked her whither she was going” from the same Project Gutenberg edition (source image image_026.jpg).
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 29021, including Harry Clarke’s 1922 illustrations, as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- World Stories Retold for Modern Boys and Girls — William James Sly, 1914
William James Sly’s concise public-domain telling is reproduced directly; only page divisions and typographic styling are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 55786 as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Grimms’ Fairy Tales — Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; English translator not identified in the ebook metadata, Undated English edition
This is a condensed reading adaptation of the public-domain Project Gutenberg text, preserving its principal sequence and much of its wording; it is not a direct transcription.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 2591 as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Grimms’ Fairy Tales — Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; English translator not identified in the ebook metadata, Undated English edition
This is a condensed reading adaptation of the public-domain Project Gutenberg story titled “Tom Thumb,” the Grimm tale Daumesdick; it preserves the main incidents but is not a direct transcription.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 2591 as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault — Charles Perrault; translated by J. E. Mansion and Robert Samber, 1922
A concise reading retelling faithful to Perrault’s plot, published in this 1922 English collection as “The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots.” The linked Project Gutenberg edition supplies the public-domain source text; compression and page divisions are editorial. The available ending art reproduces Harry Clarke’s plate captioned “The Marquis gave his hand to the Princess, and followed the King, who went up first” from the same edition; that edition has no suitable cover or Ogre-scene plate.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 29021 and its English text as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- English Fairy Tales — Joseph Jacobs, collector and editor, 1890
A concise reading adaptation faithful to Joseph Jacobs’s public-domain “Henny-Penny.” The opening and recurring dialogue retain Jacobs’s wording; cumulative passages are compressed, and page divisions are editorial. “Chicken Little” is included in the display title as the familiar American name for the tale.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 7439 as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Grimms’ Fairy Tales — Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm; English text based on Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes, 1812–1857
A concise reading retelling faithful to the plot of the public-domain Project Gutenberg text, where the story is titled “The Valiant Little Tailor.” Compression and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 2591 and its English text as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Grimms’ Fairy Tales — Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm; English text based on Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes, 1812–1857
A concise reading retelling faithful to the public-domain Project Gutenberg text. Compression and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 2591 and its English text as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- Grimms’ Fairy Tales — Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm; English text based on Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes, 1812–1857
A concise reading retelling faithful to the public-domain Project Gutenberg text. The recurring requests and the sea’s worsening condition are preserved; compression and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 2591 and its English text as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-02
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin — Robert Browning; illustrated by Kate Greenaway, 1888
A condensed prose reading of Browning’s public-domain poem, retaining its sequence, principal details, and somber ending. The conversion from verse to prose, compression, and page divisions are editorial. The three illustrations are Kate Greenaway plates (images/img21.jpg, img20.jpg, and img38.jpg) from the cited edition. The German title is the conventional name of the Hamelin legend.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 18343, including Browning’s text and Greenaway’s illustrations, as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- A Book of Myths — Jean Lang; illustrated by Helen Stratton, 1914
A condensed reading of Jean Lang’s public-domain chapter “King Midas of the Golden Touch.” It follows that chapter’s Silenus, golden-touch, and Pactolus episodes; introductory commentary and some ornament are omitted. No three-scene set of source plates was available, so the illustrations are new collection artwork in a historically informed mythic Phrygian setting. Page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 22693 and its illustrated 1914 edition as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Ali Baba, or the Forty Thieves — Anonymous; an English toy-book adaptation of the tale introduced to Europe by Antoine Galland, c. 1860s
A moderately condensed reading of the public-domain J. Wrigley toy-book text. Its main sequence is retained, while repeated attacks are compressed and violence is stated without graphic detail. The three illustrations are the cover and plates images/p006-illus.jpg and images/p008-illus.jpg from the cited edition. “Ali Baba” is absent from known medieval Arabic manuscripts of the Nights and first survives in Galland’s French publication, reportedly from Hanna Diyab; the Arabic title given here is the conventional modern title, not a claim of a medieval Arabic original. Page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 37679 and its nineteenth-century illustrated toy-book edition as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights — E. Dixon, editor; based on the English Arabian Nights tradition, 1893
A condensed reading of “The First Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor” in Dixon’s public-domain collection. The frame with Sinbad the Porter is summarized, and some trading detail is compressed; the island-whale, castaway, mare, king, recovered cargo, and return remain. No suitable three-scene set of source plates was available, so the illustrations are new collection artwork with historically informed Indian Ocean and Abbasid-era details. The Arabic title is the conventional modern title of the episode. Page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 8599 and its nineteenth-century English text as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan — William B. Laughead, 1922; revised edition 1934
A selective, condensed reading assembled from episodes in Laughead’s public-domain promotional booklet: Paul’s great size, Babe’s discovery in the blue winter, the oversized camp, the crooked-road haul, and the round-river drive. Transitions and page divisions are editorial. Laughead collected and embellished earlier logger tales while promoting a lumber company; this is not treated as the single origin of the tradition. The ebook did not provide a suitable three-scene source-art set, so the illustrations are new collection artwork in a circa-1900 North Woods setting.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 5800, including Laughead’s text and illustrations, as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Negro Workaday Songs — Howard W. Odum and Guy B. Johnson, collectors, 1926
A restrained prose reading based on the early “John Henry” variants and commentary printed in this public-domain folklore study. Repeated and floating ballad verses are condensed into a single narrative; no one recorded singer’s wording is presented as definitive. The collectors’ period title and framing are cited as historical metadata and are not endorsed. No suitable source plates were available, so the illustrations are new collection artwork with a dignified Reconstruction-era railroad setting. Page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 69378 and the 1926 edition as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Andersen’s Fairy Tales — Hans Christian Andersen; English translation by H. P. Paull, 1872
A lightly condensed reading of the public-domain H. P. Paull translation, where the story is titled “The Brave Tin Soldier.” Some descriptive repetition is shortened and page divisions are editorial; the tale’s sequence and ending are retained. The cited ebook has no story-specific plate set, so the illustrations are new collection artwork in a nineteenth-century Danish toy-room setting.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 1597 and its English Andersen text as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Old Peter’s Russian Tales — Arthur Ransome; illustrated by Dmitri Mitrokhin, 1916
A condensed reading of Ransome’s public-domain tale on pp. 88–105 of the 1916 Frederick A. Stokes edition. The framing conversation, some descriptive repetition, and several exchanges are shortened; the sequence, gifts, escape, and ending are retained. The cover is Mitrokhin’s chapter-opening vignette from the cited edition; the two interior scenes were newly made for this reading.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies the 1916 Arthur Ransome text and Dmitri Mitrokhin illustrations as public domain in the United States (ebook 16981). · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Old Peter’s Russian Tales — Arthur Ransome; illustrated by Dmitri Mitrokhin, 1916
A condensed reading of Ransome’s public-domain tale on pp. 122–135 of the 1916 Frederick A. Stokes edition. The Old Peter framing, repeated winter play, and some dialogue are shortened; the snow girl’s songs, the forest rescue, the broken promise, and Ransome’s final northern return are retained. The cover is Mitrokhin’s chapter-opening vignette from the cited edition; the two interior scenes were newly made for this reading.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies the 1916 Arthur Ransome text and Dmitri Mitrokhin illustrations as public domain in the United States (ebook 16981). · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Folk Tales from the Russian — Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Blumenthal, 1903
A condensed reading copy of de Blumenthal’s public-domain tale “The Tsarevna Frog.” The sequence of the arrows, the frog bride’s tasks and banquet, Ivan’s burning of the skin, his merciful encounters, and the recovery of Vassilissa from Kostshei are retained; repeated dialogue and some journey detail are shortened. The illustrations are newly generated because the edition does not supply suitable art for all three required story moments.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies the 1903 edition as public domain in the United States and lists “The Tsarevna Frog” in its contents. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Old Peter’s Russian Tales — Arthur Ransome, 1916
A condensed reading copy of Arthur Ransome’s public-domain “The Fire-Bird, the Horse of Power, and the Princess Vasilissa.” The golden feather, capture of the Firebird, journey to the land of Never, recovery of Vasilissa’s wedding dress, cauldron test, and marriage are retained; Old Peter’s frame, repetitions, and travel detail are shortened. The illustrations are newly generated because the edition does not supply suitable art for all three required story moments.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies the 1916 edition as public domain in the United States; its text includes “The Fire-Bird, the Horse of Power, and the Princess Vasilissa.” · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Народные русские сказки · Narodnye russkie skazki, no. 113, “Гуси-лебеди” — Alexander Afanasyev, collector, 1859
A close new English translation of Afanasyev’s compact Russian text, recorded in Kursk Province. The dialogue, repeated encounters, rescue, and homecoming are retained; only light connective wording and the page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Afanasyev’s tale was published in 1859 and is public domain by age. The displayed English translation was prepared for this collection from the linked Russian text. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- A Russian Garland of Fairy Tales, chapter 13, “Emelyan, the Fool” — Robert Steele, editor, 1911
A condensed reading copy of Steele’s public-domain English version. It retains Emelya’s bargain with the pike, the self-moving buckets and axe, the horseless sledge, the journey on the stove, the princess, exile in the cask, the island castle, reconciliation, and wedding. Repeated refusals, several scoldings, the crowd’s beating and magical cudgel episode, and some court logistics are shortened or omitted; spelling and punctuation are modernized.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: The linked 1911 edition was published in the United States before 1931 and is public domain there. This reading copy is condensed directly from that edition. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Popular Tales from the Norse, “East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon” — Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe; translated by George Webbe Dasent, 1903
A condensed reading copy of Dasent’s public-domain English translation in the cited 1903 edition. It retains the white bear’s bargain, the forbidden candle, the three old women and four winds, the golden gifts, the washing test, and the rescue. Repeated dialogue and journey detail are shortened; spelling and punctuation are lightly modernized. The illustrations are newly generated because the cited edition supplies no suitable plates for all three required moments.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: The cited 1903 David Douglas edition was published before 1931 and is public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Popular Tales from the Norse, “Princess on the Glass Hill” — Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe; translated by George Webbe Dasent, 1903
A condensed reading copy of Dasent’s public-domain English translation in the cited 1903 edition. It retains Boots’s three St John’s Eve watches, the brass, silver, and gold horses, the three rides up the glass hill, and the golden-apple recognition. Repetition and crowd detail are shortened; spelling and punctuation are lightly modernized. The illustrations are newly generated because the cited edition supplies no suitable story plates.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: The cited 1903 David Douglas edition was published before 1931 and is public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Popular Tales from the Norse, “The Mastermaid” — Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe; translated by George Webbe Dasent, 1903
A substantially condensed reading copy of Dasent’s public-domain English translation in the cited 1903 edition. It retains the prince’s service, the Master Maid’s three counsels, their magical flight, the apple of forgetfulness, and recognition at the wedding. The long comic sequence of failed suitors at her golden hut is omitted, and repeated dialogue is shortened; spelling and punctuation are lightly modernized. The illustrations are newly generated because the cited edition supplies no suitable story plates.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: The cited 1903 David Douglas edition was published before 1931 and is public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- West African Folk-Tales — William H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair, 1917
The reading copy reproduces the public-domain text of “I. How We Got the Name ‘Spider Tales’” without condensation; only page divisions and typography are editorial. The source does not record a Fante-language title. Barker wrote from the position of a British colonial education official, and the edition’s English wording and labels reflect that setting; its attribution is therefore treated as one early printed witness, not a singularly authoritative form of the tale. The turning-point image is Cecilia Sinclair’s edition plate “The Bees Flying into the Jar”; the cover and ending are newly generated.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies the 1917 edition as public domain in the United States; it includes the tale and Cecilia Sinclair’s plate. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- West African Folk-Tales — William H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair, 1917
The reading copy reproduces the public-domain text of “III. Anansi and Nothing” without condensation; only page divisions and typography are editorial. The source does not record a Fante-language title. Barker wrote from the position of a British colonial education official, and the edition’s English wording and labels reflect that setting; its attribution is therefore treated as one early printed witness, not a singularly authoritative form of the tale. The edition has no illustration for this story, so all three images are newly generated. This tale includes deception, a fatal trap, grief, and a closing English-language pun.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies the 1917 edition containing this tale as public domain in the United States. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- West African Folk-Tales — William H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair, 1917
The reading copy reproduces the public-domain text of “IV. Thunder and Anansi” without condensation; only page divisions and typography are editorial. The source does not record a Fante-language title. Barker wrote from the position of a British colonial education official, and the edition’s English wording and labels reflect that setting; its attribution is therefore treated as one early printed witness, not a singularly authoritative form of the tale. The turning-point image is Cecilia Sinclair’s edition plate “A Great Wave Dashed Anansi Back on the Beach”; the cover and ending are newly generated.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies the 1917 edition as public domain in the United States; it includes the tale and Cecilia Sinclair’s plate. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Indian Fairy Tales — Joseph Jacobs, 1892
The public-domain text of “III. The Lambikin” is reproduced from this edition without condensation. Jacobs’s source note traces it to Steel and Temple’s Wideawake Stories and says the droll was common throughout the Punjab. Spelling, punctuation, and page divisions are editorial. Jacobs supplies no Punjabi title, so the documented English collection title is retained rather than back-translated.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: Source edition published in 1892 and identified as public domain by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Indian Fairy Tales — Joseph Jacobs, 1892
This reading copy condenses the public-domain text of “IV. Punchkin,” chiefly shortening the stepmother’s repeated attempts to starve the princesses and the prince’s long journey, while preserving its sequence, names, dialogue, and ending. Jacobs traces the tale to Mary Frere’s Old Deccan Days, told by her ayah Anna de Souza of a Lingayat family long settled at Goa. Spelling, punctuation, and page divisions are editorial. No Indian-language title is documented in the cited edition, so its English collection title is retained rather than back-translated.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: Source edition published in 1892 and identified as public domain by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Indian Fairy Tales — Joseph Jacobs, 1892
The public-domain text of “XIII. The Talkative Tortoise” is reproduced from this edition without condensation. Jacobs identifies its source as the Pāli Kacchapa Jātaka, Fausböll No. 215. Spelling, punctuation, and page divisions are editorial.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: Source edition published in 1892 and identified as public domain by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys — Nathaniel Hawthorne; illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, 1910
A substantially condensed reading of Hawthorne’s public-domain chapter “The Minotaur.” The frame story, extended dialogue, Theseus’s earlier adventures, and later events on Naxos are omitted so the reading follows the tribute, Ariadne’s thread, the Labyrinth, and the escape. No suitable three-scene set exists in the cited edition, so all three illustrations are new 3:2 collection artwork in a mythic Bronze Age Aegean setting. The Greek line supplies the traditional names, not the title of a single ancient source.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 35377, reproducing Hawthorne’s text and Parrish’s 1910 illustrations, as public domain in the United States. The displayed condensation and new artwork were prepared for this collection. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys — Nathaniel Hawthorne; illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, 1910
A substantially condensed reading of Hawthorne’s public-domain chapter “The Pomegranate Seeds.” The Victorian frame, extensive dialogue, and many ornamental incidents are omitted; the separation, Demeter’s search, the barren earth, the seeds, and the seasonal return are retained. The cover is Maxfield Parrish’s “Proserpina” plate from the cited edition (images/illus8.jpg); the two 3:2 interior scenes are new collection artwork. The Greek line records the traditional name rather than a single ancient work title.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 35377 and its 1910 Parrish illustrations as public domain in the United States. The displayed condensation and two new interior illustrations were prepared for this collection. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys — Nathaniel Hawthorne; illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, 1910
A substantial condensation of Hawthorne’s public-domain chapter “The Golden Fleece,” limited to Jason’s claim, the voyage’s arrival in Colchis, Aeëtes’s trials, Medea’s aid, and the winning of the fleece. Most Argonaut episodes, the frame story, and the return journey are omitted. The cover is Parrish’s “Jason and the Talking Oak” (images/illus1.jpg) and the ending is “The Argonauts in Quest of the Golden Fleece” (images/illus10.jpg) from the cited edition; the 3:2 trial scene is new. The Greek line is a descriptive traditional title, not the title of one ancient source.
Rights: verifiedText review: reviewedCultural review: reviewedRights basis: Project Gutenberg identifies ebook 35377 and its 1910 Parrish illustrations as public domain in the United States. The displayed condensation and new turning-point illustration were prepared for this collection. · United States · checked 2026-08-03
- Contos Tradicionaes do Povo Portuguez — Teófilo Braga, collector and editor, 1883
A complete new English translation of Teófilo Braga’s public-domain Portuguese text “O caldo de pedra,” without condensation. Page divisions and English punctuation are editorial. Braga labels the collected tale “(Porto.)” This printed witness centers a hungry friar’s cleverness rather than the communal feast familiar from some later retellings. The source edition has no story-specific illustration, so all three images are newly generated.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The source text and edition were published in 1883; Wikisource links the edition scan and identifies the work as public domain in the United States, Portugal, Brazil, and other life-plus-70 jurisdictions. · United States and Portugal · checked 2026-08-03
- Fairy Tales from Brazil — Elsie Spicer Eells, 1917
A concise retelling of Eells’s “How Night Came.” The messengers replace the source edition’s enslaved attendants, and its appended punishment episode is omitted; the creation of night, dawn, and the morning chorus is retained.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1917 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
- Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa — Elphinstone Dayrell, 1910
The public-domain text is lightly normalized and divided for reading. Dayrell identifies the story as Efik; the source edition’s dated editorial framing is not reproduced.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1910 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
- Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends — Thomas G. Thrum, editor; Rev. A. O. Forbes, narrator, 1907
A lightly normalized reading of Forbes’s early English telling “Snaring the Sun.” It is presented specifically as a Hawaiian version of a wider Polynesian Māui tradition.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1907 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
- Philippine Folk Tales — Mabel Cook Cole, 1916
A child-facing retelling of Cole’s Ilocano text. The banana-plant contest, refusal to share, thorn trap, and “anything but the water” escape are retained; the source’s killing and cannibalism episodes are omitted.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1916 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Andrew Lang, editor, 1898
The public-domain text of “The Story of the Fisherman” is lightly normalized and divided for reading. The record stops at the conclusion of the fisherman’s encounter with the genie rather than continuing into the nested enchanted-fish tale.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1898 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Andrew Lang, editor, 1898
A public-domain English reading from Lang’s edition, lightly normalized and divided into pages. The tale’s imagined “China” reflects its eighteenth-century Arabian Nights transmission and is not presented as Chinese folklore.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1898 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
- Household Stories from the Collection of the Bros. Grimm — Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; translated by Lucy Crane, 1886
Lucy Crane’s public-domain translation is lightly normalized and divided for reading. Pregnancy is not added to the source’s discreet account; the separation, wandering, and healing reunion remain.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1886 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
- Household Stories from the Collection of the Bros. Grimm — Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; translated by Lucy Crane, 1886
Lucy Crane’s public-domain translation is lightly normalized and divided for reading. The source’s final punishment of the queen is omitted from this reading copy; Snow White’s awakening and new life conclude the tale.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1886 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
- The Blue Fairy Book — Andrew Lang, editor; after Charles Perrault, 1889
The public-domain “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” is lightly normalized and divided for reading. This reading ends with the castle’s awakening and wedding, omitting Perrault’s darker ogress sequel.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1889 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
- The Blue Fairy Book — Andrew Lang, editor; after Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, 1889
The public-domain Blue Fairy Book text is lightly normalized and divided for reading. Its central promise, growing friendship, return home, and transformation are retained.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1889 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
- The Shoemaker's Apron: A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales — Parker Fillmore, 1920
A concise child-facing retelling of Fillmore’s “The Twelve Months,” which he attributes to Božena Němcová. The source’s fatal ending is softened: Holena and her mother return home cold and chastened.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1920 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
- The Shoemaker's Apron: A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales — Parker Fillmore, 1920
A concise retelling of Fillmore’s version, which he associates with Karel Jaromír Erben. Violent details are omitted while the animal helpers, three tasks, and enchanted water are retained.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1920 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
- The Shoemaker's Apron: A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales — Parker Fillmore, 1920
A concise child-facing retelling of Fillmore’s “The Shepherd’s Nosegay.” Its lesson about courtesy is preserved without presenting rank or obedience as virtues in themselves.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1920 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
- The Shoemaker's Apron: A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales — Parker Fillmore, 1920
A concise retelling of Fillmore’s Czech and Slovak favorite “Clever Manka.” The riddles and Manka’s insistence on fair judgment are retained; the marriage is framed as an equal partnership.
Rights: verifiedText review: draftCultural review: pendingRights basis: The 1920 source edition is identified as public domain in the United States by Project Gutenberg. · United States · checked 2026-08-04
Story traditions Korean tales Korean tale · Korean pansori tale · Korean supernatural tale 6 stories 
Story traditions British tales Scottish tale · English tale · English-language nursery tale 6 stories 
Story traditions Anansi tales Fante Anansi tale 4 stories 
Story traditions Japanese tales Japanese tale · Japanese monogatari · Japanese Noh play 4 stories 
Story traditions Indian tales Indian tale · Jātaka tale · Punjabi tale 5 stories 
Story traditions Norwegian tales Norwegian tale 4 stories 
Story traditions German tales German tale · German fairy tale · Grimm fairy tale 12 stories 
Story traditions Chinese tales Chinese miniature tale · Chinese celestial legend · Chinese Mid-Autumn legend 3 stories 
Story traditions Russian tales Russian tale 7 stories 
Story traditions Aesop’s fables Aesop’s fable · Aesopic fable 33 stories 
Story traditions Danish tales Danish literary fairy tale · Andersen literary fairy tale 3 stories 
Story traditions French tales French literary fairy tale 2 stories 
Story traditions Greek myths Greek myth 4 stories 
Story traditions Arabian Nights Arabian Nights tale · Arabian Nights tale cycle · Arabian Nights literary tale 4 stories 
Story traditions North American legends North American tall tale · African American work song and legend 2 stories 
Story traditions Portuguese tales Portuguese trickster tale 1 story 
Story traditions Brazilian folk tradition tales Brazilian origin tale 1 story 
Story traditions Efik, southern Nigeria tales Efik origin tale 1 story 
Story traditions Hawaiian tales Hawaiian Māui legend 1 story 
Story traditions Ilocano, Philippines tales Ilocano animal tale 1 story 
Story traditions France tales French literary fairy tale 2 stories 
Story traditions Czechia tales Czech fairy tale 4 stories 
