Folk Tales Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Popular Traditions of Various Nations for Young People

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Grosset & Dunlap, 1912 - Children's stories - 215 pages

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User Review -

As fairy tales ago this is not the sanitized "g" rated tales that kids read now. I liked it and remember many of the tales from reading or hearing them as a child of the mid-century.
I recommend it to teens and anyone interested in how these tales have changed.

Contents

• CHAPTER: 3
• WHY THE SEA IS SALT: 13
• THE LAD WHO WENT TO THE NORTH: 22
• THE LAD AND THE DEIL: 28
• THE GRATEFUL FOXES: 37
• THE BADGERS MONEY: 52
• CHAPTER PAGE: 60
• THE ORIGIN OF RUBIES: 66
• LONG BROAD AND SHARPSIGHT: 74
• INTELLIGENCE AND LUCK: 92
• GEORGE WITH THE GOAT: 99
• THE WONDERFUL HAIR: 107
• CHAPTER PAGE: 124
• THE DUN HORSE: 130
• THE GREEDY YOUNGSTER: 142
• LAUGH: 162
• THE STORY OF Tom Tim Tot: 172
• THE PEASANT STORY OF NAPO: 182

Bibliographic information

• Title: Folk Tales Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Popular Traditions of Various Nations for Young People
• Editor: Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Contributor: Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, 1912
• Original from: University of Minnesota
• Digitized: Jun 28, 2013
• Length: 215 pages