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Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
One hundred great folk tales and fairy tales from all over the world about strong, smart, brave heroines. A definitive sourcebook of folktales and fairytales and the first of its kind to feature a variety of multicultural heroines. Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines: courageous mothers, clever young girls, and warrior women who save villages from monsters, rule wisely over kingdoms, and outwit judges, kings, and tigers. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and New World settlers, from Asia and the Middle East, these 100 folktales celebrate strong female heroines. In "The Mirror of Matsuyama," we see...

Italian Folktales

Friends of Thunder: Folktales of the Oklahoma Cherokees

Literature Pockets, Folktales & Fairytales, Grades K-1

Latin American Folktales : Stories from Hispanic and Indian Traditions
(Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library.)
The wisdom and artistry of Latin America's storytellers preserve one of the world's richest folktale traditions--combining the lore of medieval Europe, the ancient Near East, and pre-Columbian America. Among the essential characters are the quiet man's wife who knew the Devil's secrets, the tree daughters who robbed their father's grave, and the wife in disguise who married her own husband--not to mention the Bear's son, the tricksters Fox and Monkey, the two compadres, and the classic rogue Pedro de Urdemalas...

Folktales from India
(Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)

Folktales of Ireland
(Folktales of the World)

Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales

Folktales From Syria
(Cmes Modern Middle East Literature in Translation Series)

Morphology of the Folktale

Fair Is Fair: World Folktales of Justice

Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America: An Anthology

Folktales Told Around the World

Selected Folktales / Ausgewahlte Marchen : A Dual-Language Book (Dual-Language Book)

Favorite African Folktales
The vibrant tradition of African folktales — an oral heritage that predates Ovid and Aesop — is long and varied, but to date it has been largely overlooked in the West. Aware of this...