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Folk Tales Genre
Books in the Folk Tales genre:
English Fairy Tales (1968)
Author(s):
Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator(s):
Margery Jean Gill
The Falcon Under the Hat (1968)
Sixteen folk and fairy tales from Russia.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Guy Daniels
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Folk Tales and Legends of Ethiopia Volume 1 (1968)
This first volume of stories includes eight tales read by the illustrator.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Kostas the Rooster (1968)
When Kostas the rooster oversleeps one morning and neglects to waken the village, he loses his confidence in his ability to ever get it right.
Author(s):
Traudl
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Richard Scarry’s Best Storybook Ever (1968)
Author(s):
Kathryn Jackson
Ole Risom
Patricia Scarry
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Sixty at a Blow (1968)
In this variant of the tale of the valiant tailor, the hero kills sixty flies at the first blow and seventy at the second.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Widdecombe Fair (1968)
Tom Pearce's grey mare goes to Widdecombe Fair with a carload of churls, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1969)
Tales from The Thousand Nights and a Night, include all of the adventures of Sindbad the sailor.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Buried Moon (1969)
Tells how the Moon came down to earth to do battle with the evil ones and was rescued by human heroes.
Author(s):
Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
The Porcupine and the Tiger (1969)
Tiger claims kingship of the beasts, but porcupine begs to differ.
Author(s):
Fern Powell
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Celtic Fairy Tales (1970)
This collection also includes More Celtic Fairy Tales.
Author(s):
Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator(s):
Victor Ambrus
Dick Whittington (1970)
“Turn again, Dick Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London Town. ”
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kathleen Lines
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Granny and the Desperadoes (1970)
The two desperadoes can’t resist granny’s apple pie.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Peggy Parish
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Nursery Rhymes of England (1970)
Author(s):
James Orchard Halliwell
Illustrator(s):
Maureen Roffey
Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England (1970)
Author(s):
James Orchard Halliwell
Illustrator(s):
Maureen Roffey
The City of the Dagger and Other Tales from Burma (1971)
Ten traditional tales from Burma.
Author(s):
H. H. Keely
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
How the Moon Began: A Folk Tale from Grimm (1971)
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The King’s Ditch (1971)
King Ola rashly promises a fish to each menehune who helps bring water to his kingdom during a drought.
Author(s):
Francine Jacobs
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
More Adventures of Spider (1971)
More tales of the trickster spider of West Africa.
Author(s):
Joyce Cooper Arkhurst
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
My Big Golden Book of Words and Stories (1971)
Author(s):
Edith Osswald
Marian Potter
Mary Reed
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Richard Scarry
Garth Williams