Category: Fairy Tale
How to Babysit a Changeling — Anthea Sharp
Royal — Anthea Sharp
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales — Brothers Grimm
Volume 1
The Frog King, or Iron Henry
The Companionship of the Cat and Mouse
The Virgin Mary’s Child
Good Bowling and Card Playing
The Wolf and the Seven Kids
The Nightingale and the Blindworm
The Stolen Pennies
The Hand with the Knife
The Twelve Brothers
Riffraff
Little Brother and Little Sister
Rapunzel
The Three Little Men in the Forest
Nasty Flax Spinning
Hansel and Gretel
Herr Fix-It-Up
The White Snake
The Journey of the Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
The Fisherman and His Wife
A Story about a Brave Tailor
Cinderella
How Some Children Played at Slaughtering
The Little Mouse, the Little Bird, and the Sausage
Mother Holle
The Three Ravens
Little Red Cap
Death and the Goose Boy
The Singing Bone
The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs
Little Louse and Little Flea
Maiden without Hands
Clever Hans
Puss in Boots
Hans’s Trina
The Sparrow and His Four Children
The Little Magic Table, the Golden Donkey, and the Club in the Sack
The Tablecloth, the Knapsack, the Cannon Hat, and the Horn
Mrs. Fox
The Elves
About the Shoemaker for Whom They Did the Work
About a Servant Girl Who Acted as Godmother
About a Woman Whose Child They Had Exchanged
The Robber Bridegroom
Herr Korbes
The Godfather
The Strange Feast
Godfather Death
The Wandering of Thumbling, the Tailor’s Son
Fitcher’s Bird
The Juniper Tree
Old Sultan
The Six Swans
Briar Rose
The Foundling
King Thrushbeard
Little Snow White
Simple Hans
Rumpelstiltskin
Sweetheart Roland
The Golden Bird
Loyal Godfather Sparrow
Prince Swan
The Golden Egg
The Tailor Who Soon Became Rich
Bluebeard
The Golden Children
The Simpleton
The White Dove
The Queen Bee
The Three Feathers
The Golden Goose
All Fur
Hurleburlebutz
The King with the Lion
The Summer and the Winter Garden
Jorinda and Joringel
Okerlo
Princess Mouseskin
The Pear Refused to Fall
The Castle of Murder
Johannes Waterspring and Caspar Waterspring
The Bird Phoenix
The Carnation
The Carpenter and the Turner
The Old Grandfather and the Grandson
The Water Nixie
The Death of Little Hen
The Blacksmith and the Devil
The Three Sisters
The Poor Maiden
The Mother-in-Law
Fragments
Snowflower
The Princess with the Louse
Prince Johannes
The Good Cloth
The Fox and the Geese
Volume 2
The Poor Man and the Rich Man
The Singing, Springing Lark
The Goose Girl
The Young Giant
The Gnome
The King of the Golden Mountain
The Raven
The Clever Farmer’s Daughter
The Genie in the Glass
The Three Little Birds
The Water of Life
Doctor Know-It-All
The Frog Prince
The Devil’s Sooty Brother
The Devil in the Green Coat
The Wren and the Bear
The Sweet Porridge
The Faithful Animals
Tales about Toads
The Poor Miller’s Apprentice and the Cat
The Crows
Hans My Hedgehog
The Little Shroud
The Jew in the Thornbush
The Expert Huntsman
The Fleshing Flail from Heaven
The Children of the Two Kings
The Clever Little Tailor
The Bright Sun Will Bring It to Light
The Blue Light
The Stubborn Child
The Three Army Surgeons
The Lazy One and the Industrious One
The Three Journeymen
The Heavenly Wedding
The Long Nose
The Old Woman in the Forest
The Three Brothers
The Devil and His Grandmother
Faithful Ferdinand and Unfaithful Ferdinand
The Iron Stove
The Lazy Spinner
The Lion and the Frog
The Soldier and the Carpenter
Pretty Katrinelya and Pif-Paf-Poltree
The Fox and the Horse
The Worn-out Dancing Shoes
The Six Servants
The White Bride and the Black Bride
The Wild Man
The Three Black Princesses
Knoist and His Three Sons
The Maiden from Brakel
The Domestic Servants
Little Lamb and Little Fish
Sesame Mountain
The Children of Famine
The Little Donkey
The Ungrateful Son
The Turnip
The Rejuvenated Little Old Man
The Animals of the Lord and the Devil
The Beam
The Old Beggar Woman
The Three Lazy Sons
Saint Solicitous
The Tale about the Land of Cockaigne
The Tall Tale from Ditmarsh
A Tale with a Riddle
The Golden Key
Fairy Tales and Folklore Brothers Grimm’s Page
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Bones — Yasmine Galenorn
Back to the old classic of don’t-go-where-the-grown-ups-tell-you-not-to-go-or-something-very-bad-will-happen kind of fairy tale.
I like that Yasmine tells this with one of those delightful grim dark endings to it.
Available in the anthology, Once Upon a Curse.
Yasmine’s page
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The Queen of Frost and Darkness — Christine Pope
A gender role reversal of the old fairy tale standard of defenceless princess put under evil spell until perfect, heroic prince kisses her and they live happily ever after. This time it’s the brave, adventurous girl rescuing the enspelled boy.
So yeah, it’s about time the girls get to have an adventure and do the rescuing and young readers get to realise that boys are just as fallible to the wiles of evil doers as girls have always been portrayed to be.
I think this one is good for all ages, and certainly a great way to begin further conversations with children about historical views of gender roles when this is compared to fairy tales from the patriarchy such as Sleeping Beauty etc..
Available in the anthology, Once Upon a Curse.
Christine’s page
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Fae Horse — Anthea Sharp
This one is very much on the dark side of folk-lore/fairy-tale telling, beginning in a witch hunt. Maybe not so suitable for very young children.
That said, its very good and will certainly keep you in its grip until the end.
Available on its own (click on picture) but also included in the anthology, Once Upon a Curse, and also in the collection, Tales of Feyland and Faerie.
Anthea’s page
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin — Robert Browning
A delightful, long poem telling the full story of the Pied Piper. Great for reading out loud to children. And much, much better than the Brothers Grimm version.
Best of all, it’s free. So why not download and give it a read today.
Fairy Tales and Folklore Robert’s Page
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The Children of Hameln — Brothers Grimm
Not so much a fairy tale, more of a historic magazine article.
Worth a read though as it sets the stage for all later Pied Piper stories.
Click on picture for PDF file that’s a good sized font for reading on a Kindle.
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Through Time and Space — Julia Crane
A fun, little re-make of Little Red Riding Hood with all the usual protagonists portrayed as Venusians being banished to Earth.
This is my first story from the anthology, Once Upon A Star, which, apparently, is all fairy tales re-told in sci-fi settings. However, i would put Through Time and Space squarely in the fantasy genre as moving by magic from one planet is fantasy, not sci-fi. One certainly wouldn’t put Raymond E Feist in the sci-fi category and he has plenty of rift gate planet hopping going on in his books.
I read this so i could add it to my Little Red Riding Hood collection, and, genre disputes aside, it’s a nice little addition to my fairy tale collection and worth a read for all fairy tale fans.