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The buried moon
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Joseph Jacobs,Susan Jeffers |
The Moon is held prisoner in the bog by the Evil Ones until the townspeople miss her light and go to search for her. |
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Hereafterthis
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Joseph Jacobs |
When Farmer Jan begins to ask his new wife what she can do, a series of disasters follows. |
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Lazy Jack, a picture book, by Barry Wilkinson
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Joseph Jacobs |
Retells the adventures of the lazy boy who could never do anything right but became rich in spite of himself. |
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The magpie's nest
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Joseph Jacobs |
Because none of the birds stay to the end of the magpie's nest-building lesson, each leaves with a different idea of how to build a nest. |
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Munachar & Manachar
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Joseph Jacobs |
A cumulative tale in which an Irish leprechaun tries to punish his partner for eating raspberries as fast as he can pick them. |
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Tattercoats
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Joseph Jacobs |
Retells the traditional English tale of how poor, neglected Tattercoats comes to marry the Prince. |
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European folk and fairy tales
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Joseph Jacobs |
A collection of twenty-five traditional fairy tales from the folklore of many countries of Europe. |
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Jack and the beanstalk
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Joseph Jacobs |
Joseph Jacobs' version of the tale in which a boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk where he must use his quick wits to outsmart an ogre and make his and his mother's fortune. |
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More Celtic fairy tales
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Joseph Jacobs |
Leprechauns, fairies, and medieval heroes figure in the strange events related in this paperback reprint of twenty Celtic folk and fairy tales. |
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Fables
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Roger L'Estrange,Percy J. Billinghurst,Joseph Jacobs,Aesop |
The world's oldest known collection of fables and folk tales. Some of the stories credited to Aesop, a Greek slave who lived in about the sixth century BCE, are known in every corner of the globe, su… |
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The most delectable history of Reynard the Fox
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W. Frank Calderon,Henry Cole,Joseph Jacobs |
Tales of the cunning of Reynard the fox whose intent on winning is expressed in his very human approach to life. |
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Joseph Jacobs' the story of the three little pigs
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Joseph Jacobs,Lorinda Bryan Cauley |
Rather than suffer the fate of his two brothers, a pig cleverly outwits a persistent wolf once and for all. |
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More English fairy tales
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Joseph Jacobs |
Forty-four lesser known tales collected from English folklore, including Yallery Brown, Tom Hickathrift, Scrapefoot, A. Pottle O'Brains, Tamlane, and Tabetrot and Scantie Mab. |
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English Fairy Tales
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Joseph Jacobs,Joseph Jacobs |
From the book:Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own? The present volume contains only a selection out of some 140, of which I have found traces in this country. It is probable t… |
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