Here are 77 story-telling ballads and narrative poems, that will make the heart beat faster and the pulse-bound. They offer a feast of good things - romances, hero-tales, fairy legends, and adventures of knights and lovely damsels. They sing of proud and wicked folk, of gentle and loyal ones, of laidley worms, witches, mermaids with golden combs, and maidens, glad ones and fearless lovers, moss-troopers, border-rievers, and kings in disguise. All their doings are related in the stirring, leaping, joyous - or tat times martial and mournful-ballad measure. The ancient ballads are here presented...
Here are 77 story-telling ballads and narrative poems, that will make the heart beat faster and the pulse-bound. They offer a feast of good things - r...
A choice collection of Native American myths and legends carefully selected from many sources. Most are nature stories telling about birds, beasts, flowers, and rocks of our American meadows, prairies, and forests. The tales are arranged according to the seasons with several stories offered for each month of the year. There are some for early spring, when the maple sap mounts, and the arbutus blooms under the snow; for later spring, when the birds nest, and the wild flowers blow; for summer, with its heat, storms, fishing, and canoeing; for autumn with its corn, nuts, and harvest feast; for...
A choice collection of Native American myths and legends carefully selected from many sources. Most are nature stories telling about birds, beasts, fl...
Frances Jenkins Olcott was a 20th century writer of children's stories. This collection brings together myths, legends, tales, and historical stories suitable to holiday occasions. There are 120 stories covering topics for 17 different holidays. "Among the men and books contributing to these pages are the Gesta Romanorum, Il Libro d'Oro, Xenophon, Ovid, Lucian, the Venerable Bede, William of Malmesbury. John of Hildesheim, William Caxton, and the more modern Washington Irving, Hugh Miller, Charles Dickens, and Henry Cabot Lodge; also those immortals, Hans Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Horace...
Frances Jenkins Olcott was a 20th century writer of children's stories. This collection brings together myths, legends, tales, and historical stories ...
"The Red Indian Fairy Book" was originally published in 1917. This edition contains all sixty-four of the original stories and all seventeen of the original illustrations and the original color plate (used on the cover). Of special interest to storyteller
"The Red Indian Fairy Book" was originally published in 1917. This edition contains all sixty-four of the original stories and all seventeen of the or...
This Wonder Book contains over 150 myths and tales of nature from all parts of the world, illustrated by Milo Winter. There are tales of flowers, talking birds, magic waters and enchanted forests that children can delight in. Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in childrens literature. We are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.
This Wonder Book contains over 150 myths and tales of nature from all parts of the world, illustrated by Milo Winter. There are tales of flowers, talk...
