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- "Still they remember me"
- "Why goats smell bad" and other stories from Benin
- 100 Armenian tales and their folkloristic relevance,
- 100 flowers and how they got their names
- 13 monsters
- A Christmas spider's miracle
- A Lobster in every pot : recipes & lore
- A Peacemaker for warring nations : the founding of the Iroquois League
- A Treasury of Jewish folklore : stories, traditions, legends, humor, wisdom and folk songs of the Jewish people
- A World of children's stories
- A World of fairy tales
- A big quiet house : a Yiddish folktale from Eastern Europe
- A book of cats and creatures
- A book of charms and changelings.
- A book of ghosts & goblins.
- A book of ogres and trolls
- A book of sorcerers and spells.
- A book of witches
- A calendar of festivals
- A child's book of wildflowers
- A chronicle of Celtic folk customs : a day-to-day guide to Celtic folk traditions
- A coat for the moon and other Jewish tales
- A fair stream of silver; : love tales from Celtic lore
- A forest of stories : magical tree tales from around the world
- A kayak full of ghosts : Eskimo tales
- A natural history of trees of eastern and central North America;
- A ring of tricksters : animal tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa
- A sack full of feathers
- A sanctuary of trees : beechnuts, birdsongs, baseball bats, and benedictions
- A song of stars : an Asian legend
- A tale of two tengu : a Japanese folktale
- A terrifying taste of short & shivery : thirty creepy tales
- A thousand steps into night
- A treasury of railroad folklore; : the stories, tall tales, traditions, ballads, and songs of the American railroad man.
- A twist in the tail : animal stories from around the world
- A wave in her pocket : stories from Trinidad
- A wolf at the gate
- A world of their own making : myth, ritual, and the quest for family values
- Abenaki Indian legends, grammar and place names,
- Abiyoyo : based on a South African Lullaby and folk story
- About wise men and simpletons : twelve tales from Grimm
- Adelita : a Mexican Cinderella story
- Adopted by the eagles : a Plains Indian story of friendship and treachery
- Aesop in California
- Aesop's animals : the science behind the fables
- Aesop's fables
- Aesop's fables
- Aesop's fables
- African American folklore : an encyclopedia for students
- After the fall : how Humpty Dumpty got back up again
- Aladdin
- Aladdin and his wonderful lamp
- Aladdin and the enchanted lamp
- Aladdin and the magic lamp
- Alan Garner's Book of British fairy tales
- Algonquian and Abenaki Indian : myths and legends
- Ali Baba and the forty thieves
- Ali Baba and the forty thieves
- All of you was singing
- Amazonia : indigenous tales from Brazil
- American Indian myths and legends
- American folk tales and songs : and other examples of English-American tradition as preserved in the Appalachian Mountains and elsewhere in the United States
- Ananse's feast : an Ashanti tale
- Anansi and the moss-covered rock
- Anansi and the talking melon
- Anansi finds a fool : an Ashanti tale
- Anansi goes fishing
- Anansi goes fishing
- Anansi the spider : a tale from the Ashanti
- Ancient & epic tales from around the world
- Ancient Egypt : tales of gods and pharaohs
- Ancient Egyptian Sky Lore : Rethinking the Conventional Wisdom
- And in the beginning--
- And me, coyote!
- Animals and the origins of dance
- Anna and the seven swans
- Anpao : an American Indian odyssey
- Ant and grasshopper
- Antelope Woman : an Apache folktale
- Apples on a stick : the folklore of Black children
- Archer's quest
- Arion and the dolphins : based on an ancient Greek legend
- Arrow to the sun; : a Pueblo Indian tale.
- Arthur and the sword
- Ashley Bryan's beautiful blackbird and other folktales
- Ashpet : an Appalachian tale
- At play in Belfast : children's folklore and identities in Northern Ireland
- At the center of the world : based on Papago and Pima myths
- Atlantic : great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories
- Atlantic : great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories
- Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
- Babushka : a Christmas tale
- Baby rattlesnake
- Back in the beforetime : tales of the California Indians
- Bagels from Benny
- Bamboo hats and a rice cake : a tale adapted from Japanese folklore
- Bear : myth, animal, icon
- Bearhead : a Russian folktale
- Beasts and bawdy
- Beasts beyond the fire
- Beat the story-drum, pum-pum
- Beautiful blackbird
- Beauty & the beast
- Beauty and the beast
- Beauty and the beast
- Before you were born
- Berry magic
- Between heaven and earth : bird tales from around the world
- Beyond the pale : folklore, family, and the mystery of our hidden genes
- Big Turtle
- Big men, big country : a collection of American tall tales
- Billy Beg and his bull : an Irish tale
- Bimwili & the Zimwi : a tale from Zanzibar
- Birds in legend, fable and folklore,
- Birrarung Wilam : a story from Aboriginal Australia
- Black duck and water rat
- Black folktales.
- Black rainbow : legends of the Incas and myths of ancient Peru
- Black sheep and kissing cousins : how our family stories shape us
- Blue dawn, red earth : new Native American storytellers
- Blue roots : African-American folk magic of the Gullah people
- Bo Rabbit smart for true : folktales from the Gullah
- Bo Rabbit smart for true : tall tales from the Gullah
- Boo stew
- Boots and his brothers : a Norwegian tale
- Borreguita and the coyote : a tale from Ayutla, Mexico
- Brave Chicken Little
- Brave Red, smart frog : a new book of old tales
- Brave Wolf and the Thunderbird
- Brer Rabbit : stories from Uncle Remus
- Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
- Brer Rabbit and his tricks
- Brer Rabbit and the wonderful tar baby
- Brer Tiger and the big wind
- Brother Anansi and the cattle ranch
- Brother Rabbit : a Cambodian tale
- Brothers : a Hebrew legend
- Bruh Rabbit and the tar baby girl
- Buffalo dance : a Blackfoot legend
- Buffalo woman
- Burgoo stew
- Buried Moon
- Calendar moon
- Call it courage
- Call it courage
- Can't scare me!
- Canada : Timoon and the Narwhal
- Cats of myth : tales from around the world
- Celtic fairy tales
- Celtic fairy tales : being the two collections 'Celtic fairy tales' & 'More Celtic fairy tales'
- Celtic fairy tales: : retold with an introduction by Neil Philip/
- Celtic goddesses : warriors, virgins, and mothers
- Celtic myths and legends
- Chanda and the mirror of moonlight
- Changing Woman and her sisters : stories of goddesses from around the world
- Chanukah in Chelm
- Chia and the fox man : an Alaskan Dena'ina fable
- Chicken Little
- Chicken Little
- Chicken Little
- Chimney Pond tales : yarns told by Leroy Dudley
- Chinese fables : "the Dragon Slayer" and other timeless tales of wisdom
- Chinese zodiac animals
- Christmas fairy tales
- Chukfi Rabbit's big, bad bellyache : a trickster tale
- Church curiosities : strange objects and bizarre legends
- Cháł tó yinílo' : Frog brings rain
- Cinderella
- Cinderella
- Cinderella
- Cinderella
- Cinderella : or, The little glass slipper
- Cinders : a chicken Cinderella
- Classic Celtic fairy tales
- Clever Gretchen and other forgotten folktales
- Could anything be worse? : A Yiddish tale,
- Coyote : a trickster tale from the American Southwest
- Coyote blue
- Coyote in love
- Coyote love : native American folktales
- Coyote steals the blanket : a Ute tale
- Coyote walks on two legs : a book of Navajo myths and legends
- Craignish tales and others.
- Cranberry chronicles : a book about a bog
- Creation myths of primitive America in relation to the religious history and mental development of mankind,
- Cricket boy : a Chinese tale
- Crow chief : a Plains Indian story
- Cuckoo : a Mexican folktale = Cucú : un cuento folklórico mexicano
- Cuentos negros de Cuba
- Cut from the same cloth : American women of myth, legend, and tall tale /:
- D'Aulaires' book of trolls
- Damascus nights
- Dara's clever trap : a story from Cambodia
- Daughter of the moon goddess
- Dead strange : the bizarre truths behind 50 world-famous mysteries
- Dear Mili : an old tale
- Deep in the woods : a folk tale
- Dhegdheer : a scary Somali folktale
- Disney frozen : breaking boundaries
- Doctor Coyote : a Native American Aesop's fables
- Dogs of myth : tales from around the world
- Drummer Hoff
- Duffy and the devil
- Duppy talk : West Indian tales of mystery and magic
- Earth Namer; : a California Indian myth,
- Earth keeper : reflections on the American land
- Earth tales from around the world
- Earthmaker : tribal stories from Native North America
- East of the sun, west of the moon
- Echoes of the elders : the stories and paintings of Chief Lelooska
- Eight tales for eight nights : stories for Chanukah
- Eight words for the study of expressive culture
- El burrito y la tuna : cuento guajiro
- El sombrero del Tío Nacho : Uncle Nacho's hat
- Elephant in the dark
- Elijah's violin & other Jewish fairy tales
- Enduring roots : encounters with trees, history, and the American landscape
- English fairy tales.
- Epossumondas
- Epossumondas
- Even higher
- Every tongue got to confess : Negro folk-tales from the Gulf states
- Fairy tales for little folks
- Far north tales : stories from the peoples of the Arctic circle
- Fat Gopal
- Fat cat : a Danish folktale
- Father and daughter tales
- Favorite fairy tales told in Czechoslovakia
- Fearsome giant, fearless child : a worldwide Jack and the beanstalk story
- Feathers
- Feathers : a Jewish tale from Eastern Europe
- Feathers and tails : animal fables from around the world
- Fin M'Coul : the giant of Knockmany Hill
- Fire race : a Karuk Coyote tale about how fire came to the people
- Firebird
- Fireside stories : tales for a winter's eve
- Fireside tales of the Traveller children : twelve Scottish stories
- First light, first life : a worldwide creation story
- First spring : an Innu tale of North America
- Flights of fancy : birds in myth, legend and superstition
- Flying snakes & griffin claws : and other classical myths, historical oddities, and scientific curiosities
- Folk stories of the Hmong : peoples of Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam
- Folk-lore in the Old Testament; : studies in comparative religion, legend and law,
- Folklore, memoirs, and other writings
- Folkloric American witchcraft and the multicultural experience : a crucible at the crossroads
- Food for the dead : on the trail of New England's vampires
- Foraging wild edible plants of North America : more than 150 delicious recipes using nature's edibles
- Forty fortunes : a tale of Iran
- Four treasures of the sky
- Fox tails : four fables from Aesop
- Foxfire 10 : railroad lore, boardinghouses, Depression-era Appalachia, chair making, whirligigs, snake canes, and gourd art
- Foxy!
- Frog girl
- From my people : 400 years of African American folklore
- From the beast to the blonde : on fairy tales and their tellers
- Fungipedia : a brief compendium of mushroom lore
- Further tales of Uncle Remus : the misadventures of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, the Doodang, and other creatures
- Gabriel's palace : Jewish mystical tales
- Gaelic ghosts
- Gamayun tales, 2, The water spirit
- Gardener's Latin : a lexicon
- Gawain and the Green Knight
- Gershon's monster : a story for the Jewish New Year
- Ghosts and bogles
- Ghosts go haunting
- Ghosts, vampires, and werewolves : eerie tales from Transylvania
- Giants! : stories from around the world
- Giants! Giants! Giants! : From many lands and many times
- Gidja the moon
- Gift of the Nile : an Ancient Egyptian legend
- Gilly Martin the Fox
- Give up, Gecko! : a folktale from Uganda
- Glooscap and his magic; : legends of the Wabanaki Indians.
- Glooskap's country, : and other Indian tales.
- Gluskabe and the four wishes
- Gluskap the liar, & other Indian tales,
- Go gator and muddy the water : writings
- Goatilocks and the three bears
- Gobble you up! : based on a Rajasthani folktale
- Gobble, gobble, slip, slop : a tale of a very greedy cat
- God of mercy : a novel
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Golem
- Good night, Wind : [A Yiddish folktale]
- Grandma and the great gourd : a Bengali folk tale
- Grandmothers of the light : a medicine woman's sourcebook
- Great Rabbit and the long-tailed Wildcat
- Greatest animal stories
- Gūldīlūks wa-al-dibabah al-thalāthah : Goldilocks and the three bears
- Half a kingdom : an Icelandic folktale
- Hansel & Gretel : a Toon graphic
- Hansel and Gretel
- Hare and tortoise
- Harvey, the foolish pig
- Haunting tales from Japan
- Head, body, legs : a story from Liberia
- Heart : a personal journey through its myths and meanings
- Heart of the sun warrior
- Hedgemaids and fairy candles : the lives and lore of North American wildflowers
- Henny Penny
- Her seven brothers
- Her stories : African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales
- Herbs and the earth
- Hiawatha
- Hiawatha's childhood
- Hidden stories in plants : unusual and easy-to-tell stories from around the world, together with creative things to do while telling them
- Hiʻiaka and Panaʻewa : a Hawaiian graphic legend
- Horses of myth
- How Glooskap Outwits the Ice Giants ; and other tales of the Maritime Indians
- How Rabbit tricked Otter and other Cherokee trickster stories
- How Snowshoe Hare rescued the sun : a tale from the Arctic
- How Turtle's back was cracked : a traditional Cherokee tale
- How Two-Feather was saved from loneliness : an Abenaki legend
- How animals saved the people : animal tales from the South
- How many donkeys? : an Arabic counting tale
- How many spots does a leopard have? and other tales
- How night came from the sea : a story from Brazil
- How rabbit lost his tail : a traditional Cherokee legend
- How raven got his crooked nose : an Alaskan Dena'ina fable
- How summer came to Canada.
- How the Manx cat lost its tail
- How the animals got their colors : animal myths from around the world
- How the finch got his colors
- How the guinea fowl got her spots : an African tale
- How the leopard got his spots
- How the ostrich got its long neck : a tale from the Akamba of Kenya
- How the sea began : a Taino myth
- How the stars fell into the sky : a Navajo legend
- How thunder and lightning came to be : a Choctaw legend
- Héritage de la francophonie canadienne : traditions orales
- I am Tama, lucky cat : a Japanese legend
- I know what I saw : modern-day encounters with monsters of new urban legend and ancient lore
- If you had a horse : steeds of myth and legend
- Iktomi and the berries : a Plains Indian story
- Iktomi and the boulder : a Plains Indian story
- Iktomi and the buffalo skull : a Plains Indian story
- Iktomi and the buzzard : a Plains Indian story
- Iktomi and the coyote : a Plains Indian story
- Iktomi and the ducks : a Plains Indian story
- Iktomi loses his eyes : a Plains Indian story
- Il était une fois : three classic stories to help children learn French
- Imaginary animals : the monstrous, the wondrous and the human
- Imani in the belly
- In a dark, dark room, and other scary stories
- In fond remembrance of me
- In full bloom : tales of women in their prime
- In the Rainfield
- In the heart of the village : the world of the Indian Banyan tree
- Indian legends of the Pacific Northwest
- Indian legends of the White Mountains,
- Insect fact and folklore
- Invisible kingdoms : Jewish tales of angels, spirits, and demons
- Ireland : stone walls & fabled landscapes
- Irish wild plants : myths, legends & folklore
- Iron John
- Iroquois stories : heroes and heroines, monsters and magic
- Is my friend at home? : pueblo fireside tales
- Ishi's tale of Lizard
- It could always be worse : a Yiddish folk tale
- It could always be worse : a Yiddish folk tale
- It is a tree
- It's too noisy!
- Italian folktales
- Italian-American folklore
- Jabutí the tortoise : a trickster tale from the Amazon
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack and the beanstalk
- Jack the Giant Killer : Jack's first and finest adventure
- Jack the giant chaser : an Appalachian tale
- Jack-o'-lantern
- Jackal's flying lesson : a khoikhoi tale
- Jade and iron : Latin American tales from two cultures
- Jamie O'Rourke and the big potato : an Irish folktale
- Jewish folktales
- Jim Henson's The storyteller : the complete collection
- John Henry
- John Henry
- John Henry
- John Henry and his hammer.
- Jojofu
- Jolie Blonde and the three Hebérts : a Cajun twist to an old tale
- Joseph who loved the Sabbath
- Jouanah, a Hmong Cinderella
- Journey of the nightly jaguar : inspired by an ancient Mayan myth
- Journeys with Elijah : eight tales of the Prophet/
- Joy through the world
- Juan Bobo and the pig : a Puerto Rican folktale
- Juan Bobo and the queen's necklace; : a Puerto Rican folk tale.
- Jump again! : more adventures of Brer Rabbit
- Jump on over! : the adventures of Brer Rabbit and his family
- Jump! : the adventures of Brer Rabbit
- Just so stories,
- Kaikeyi : a novel
- Kanahena : a Cherokee story
- Kapaemahu
- Kassim's shoes
- Katahdin : wigwam's tales of the Abnaki Tribe and a dictionary of Penobscot and Passamaquoddy words with French and English translations
- Kate and the beanstalk
- Keepers of the night : Native American stories and nocturnal activities for children
- Kibitzers and fools : tales my zayda (grandfather) told me
- King Arthur : Dark Age warrior and mythic hero
- King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table : retold out of the old Romances