The acclaimed author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and many other juvenile fantasy books, L. Frank Baum had a lifelong fascination with fables, folklore, mythology, and fairy tales. This volume collects a series of engaging fantasy stories that follow the format of the world's best-loved fairy tales, combining imagination and adventure with valuable moral lessons.
In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, Kate Koppy shows that fairy tales have become a key part of the American secular scripture by analyzing contemporary fairy tale texts as both new versions in a ...
Cinderella in America: A Book of Folk and Fairy Tales represents these tales as they have been told in the United States from Revolutionary days until the present.
Rootabaga Stories, Part One is irrepressible, zany Americana-an anthology to delight admirers of Sandburg's genius.
Sixteen stories that focus on the magical lore of African American women, as well as three autobiographical stories.
American Fairy Tales is that the title of a set of twelve fantasy stories by L. Baum, published in 1901 by the George M. Hill Company, the firm that issued The Wonderful Wizard of Oz the previous year.
South American Fairy Tales
BIBLIOGRAPHY Aarne, Antti, and Stith Thompson, eds. The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography. Translated and enlarged by Stith Thompson. ... Baer, Florence C. Sources and Analogues of the Uncle Remus Tales.
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Featuring black-and-white illustrations throughout, this Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library edition is unprecedented in size and scope, including riddles, folk prayers, and fables never before translated into English.
American Fairy Tales