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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Clever Gretchen and other forgotten folktales	Alison Lurie	Folktales about heroines, "fair maidens [who] can fight and hunt as well as any man, defeat giants, answer riddles, outwit the Devil, and rescue friends and relatives from all sorts of dangers and ev…	OL102909W
Little Ida's flowers	Hans Christian Andersen	Little Ida discovers the reason her flowers look so tired in the morning when they were so pretty the evening before.	OL15049673W
A Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales	Various	A Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales collects more than 200 stories from the rich folk legacy of the Emerald Isle. Its pages are animated with colorful tales of the fairy folk in all their many g…	OL17614476W
Analisis struktur dan nilai budaya cerita rakyat Sumatera Utara	Maini Trisna Jayawati	Analysis of Sumatera Utara folk literature.	OL1782515W
Unsur kekerabatan dalam tutur sastra Nusantara di Sumatera Selatan	Zainul Arifin Aliana	Kinship in Sumatera Selatan folk literature.	OL18832664W
Acadian legends, folktales and songs from Prince Edward Island	Georges Arsenault	"Island historian and folklorist Georges Arsenault has been collecting songs and stories from Acadian Prince Edward Island since his student days in the 1970s: words transmitted by lamplight in the e…	OL19477490W
Peachboy	Eric Metaxas,Jeffrey Smith	Found floating on the river inside a peach by an old couple, Momotaro grows up and fights the terrible demons who have terrorized the village for years.	OL1958039W
Literatura, memoria e imaginación en América Latina	Carlos Huamán	Se reúne diversos estudios relacionados con el problema de la representación oral y/o escrita de la heterogénea realidad latinoamericana, los cuales ofrecen interpretaciones interdisciplinarias …	OL19610242W
Sina and the eel	Leilani Watson	A Samoan girl called Sina had a small pet eel. When the eel grew, it fell in love with Sina, which made her afraid. She tried to run away, but the fish followed her. Village chiefs killed the eel. As…	OL19747277W
Pocket Scottish Legends: 25 Classics to Delight and Entertain	Fiona Biggs	256 pages : 15 cm	OL19874816W
The growth of literature	H. Munro Chadwick,Nora Chadwick,N. Kershaw Chadwick	"A comparative study of the literary genres found in various countries and languages and in different periods of history."--Pref., v. 1.	OL21239593W
Oral literature in Africa	Ruth H. Finnegan	Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study…	OL2353376W
The children from Tibet	Bodil Hagbrink,Patricia Crampton	Tenzin, a Tibetan girl living with her family in a refugee camp in Nepal, has never seen her native Tibet until one day her father takes her on a journey to show her the Himalayas.	OL24160490W
Bedtime tales	Linda M. Jennings	Contains over 140 stories, Aesop fables, and adaptations of folk tales.	OL24445441W
Scary Stories 3	Alvin Schwartz	Great Book ! Best for kids 10-14 Does chill your bones	OL273689W
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	Alvin Schwartz,Alvin Schwartz	More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.	OL273693W
Abecedário de personagens do folclore brasileiro	Januária Cristina Alves	"Atenção: este livro contém 141 personagens do dito folclore brasileiro, cuidadosamente secionados dentre a bibliografia mais especialzada sobre o assunto, descritos com fidelidade aos melhores e mai…	OL32745107W
Kathāsaritsāgara	Somadeva Bhaṭṭa	Classical Indic tales; Sanskrit text with German translation.	OL342214W
Kinder- und Hausmärchen	Brothers Grimm	An illustrated edition of more than 200 traditional tales collected from German folklore by the Brothers Grimm.	OL45361W
Out of the earth I sing	Lewis, Richard	A collection of poems from primitive peoples throughout the world on such themes as love, nature, and death. Illustrated with photographs of the art of these peoples.	OL553986W