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Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846 - 1916)

We have always loved stories. people have always entertained each other by telling tales around the campfire; traveling storytellers were huge crowd-pullers. Many of these stories were passed down through the generations, largely unchanged. "The stories made by the people, and told before evening fires, or in public places and at the gates of inns in the Orient, belong to the ages when books were few and knowledge limited, or to people whose fancy was not hampered by familiarity with or care for facts; they are the creations, as they were the amusement, of men and women who were children in knowledge, but were thinking deeply and often wisely of what life meant to them, and were eager to know and hear more about themselves, their fellows, and the world. In the earlier folk-stories one finds a childlike simplicity and readiness to believe in the marvellous; and these qualities are found also in the French peasant's version of the career of Napoleon. " (from the Introduction). - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846 - 1916)

The Peasant Story Of Napoleon

The Story Of Tom Tit Tot

Hans Who Made The Princess Laugh

The Greedy Youngster

The Dun Horse

The Good Children

The Dragon And The Prince

The Wonderful Hair

George With The Goat

Intelligence And Luck

Long, Broad And Sharpsight

The Origin Of Rubies

Why Brother Bear Has No Tail

The Badger's Money

The Grateful Foxes

Ananzi And The Lion

The Lad And The Deil

The Lad Who Went To The North Wind

Why The Sea Is Salt

Hans In Luck

Introduction