tales

An exploration of fairies and leprechauns and legends about them.

Can you escape from an evil wizard? Can you outrun a corpse? Can you learn secrets from a severed head? These terrifying questions, and many more, enliven twenty-two tales collected from around the world and retold. From China to Egypt, and Spain to Hawaii, people have gathered for generations to listen to spooky stories that make the backs of their necks prickle. You can share their nightmares of monstrous sea ghosts with sharp green teeth, women with blood-red hair that turns into snakes, skulls that defy death, and treasure chambers that can trap you inside forever. In huts and palaces, by campfires and hearths, people huddle close together to hear these tales. But if you read them alone, beware!.

More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible scary things.

Retells the folktale of the gecko who complains to the village chief that the fireflies keep him awake at night but then learns that in nature all things are connected.

Translation of: Fiabe italiane. An anthology of 200 Italian folktales.

A collection of tall tales about such American folk heroes as Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Paul Bunyan.

Jack and Annie research leprechauns and Irish folklore, hoping to separate fact from fiction. Includes definitions, illustrations, facts, and more.

A collection of scary folktales from the United States, China, England, Italy, Russia, and other countries around the world.

Presents a collection of over fifty traditional English folktales along with background information on the stories as well as the storytellers, a brief history of England, a map of English counties, and color photographs.