Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Children's Fiction, General

Authors: Hamilton Wright Mabie In Year : 1908

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

Introduction
Hans In Luck
Why The Sea Is Salt
The Lad Who Went To The North Wind
The Lad And The Deil
Ananzi And The Lion
The Grateful Foxes
The Badger's Money
Why Brother Bear Has No Tail
The Origin Of Rubies
Long, Broad And Sharpsight
Intelligence And Luck
George With The Goat
The Wonderful Hair
The Dragon And The Prince
The Good Children
The Dun Horse
The Greedy Youngster
Hans Who Made The Princess Laugh
The Story Of Tom Tit Tot
The Peasant Story Of Napoleon

We have always loved stories. people have always entertained each other by telling tales around the campfire; traveling storytellers were huge crowd-pullers. Many of these stories were passed down through the generations, largely unchanged. "The stories made by the people, and told before evening fires, or in public places and at the gates of inns in the Orient, belong to the ages when books were few and knowledge limited, or to people whose fancy was not hampered by familiarity with or care for facts; they are the creations, as they were the amusement, of men and women who were children in knowledge, but were thinking deeply and often wisely of what life meant to them, and were eager to know and hear more about themselves, their fellows, and the world. In the earlier folk-stories one finds a childlike simplicity and readiness to believe in the marvellous; and these qualities are found also in the French peasant's version of the career of Napoleon. " (from the Introduction). - Summary by Lynne Thompson