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Folk Tales Genre
Books in the Folk Tales genre:
Myths from Many Lands (1906)
A large selection of myths. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Howard Pyle
T. H. Robinson
E. Boyd Smith
The Ingoldsby Legends (1907)
Author(s):
Thomas Ingoldsby
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Story of Little Black Sambo (1908)
Author(s):
Helen Bannerman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Illustrator(s):
John R. Neill
The Arabian Nights Their Best-Known Tales (1909)
Ten of the most famous tales from the Thousand and One Nights, adapted for younger readers. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
None
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
The Children’s Book: A Collection of the Best and Most Famous Stories and Poems in the English Language (1910)
Ranging from fables to fairy tales to ballads to myth, this anthology has stood the test of time. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
Maxfield Parrish
Et al
A Child’s Book of Stories (1911)
A large collection of perennial favorite fairy tales, fables and stories. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Penrhyn W. Coussens
Various
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Indian Book (1911)
Author(s):
John William Hopkins
Illustrator(s):
George Catlin
E. Boyd Smith
The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book (1911)
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Grimm’s Household Tales (1912)
A selection of forty-nine favorites for children. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
R. Anning Bell
Junior Classics Volume 1 (1912)
A collection of folk and fairy tales and fables for children from six to sixteen. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Edmund Dulac
Warwick Goble
Arthur Rackham
Et al
Junior Classics Volume 2 (1912)
Selections mainly from the Norse myths and Greek and Roman mythology for children from six to sixteen. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
Arthur Rackham
Et al
Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood (1912)
Legends of Robin Hood retold by Henry Gilbert with sixteen color plates.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Gilbert
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Sampo (1912)
A collection of traditional tales from the Finnish Kalevala. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
James Baldwin
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Blackfeet Indian Stories (1913)
A collection of BlackfeetIndian legends of creation, tradition, and fire-side stories.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
George Bird Grinnell
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Seven Champions of Christendom (1913)
Author(s):
F. J. Harvey Darton
Richard Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Norman Ault
Puss in Boots and The Forty Thieves (1914)
This is a small format reprint of the two Toy Books.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Sleeping Beauty and Blue Beard (1914)
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Three Bears and Mother Hubbard (1914)
A small format (16mo) edition of these two Sixpenny Toy Books.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Favorites of a Nursery of Seventy Years Ago (1916)
A large collection of favorites from the 1840’s. This second edition is somewhat enlarged.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
None
Rip Van Winkle (1916)
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham