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Classic Tales and Fables

What You Can Do With These Tales

Warning:

Any symbols, letters, or words missing or misplaced in these tales are the result of evil fairies. And there are a lot of them flying about.

 

Contents

Aesop's Fables
American Fairy Tales, by L. Frank Baum
The Arabian Nights Entertainment
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
The Burgess Animal Book for Children, by Thornton W. Burgess
Buttercup Gold and Other Stories, by Ellen Robena Field
Flower Fables, by Louisa May Alcott
Folk and Fairy Tales
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter, by Beatrix Potter
The Happy Prince and Other Tales, by Oscar Wilde
Indian Why Stories, by Frank B. Linderman
Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling
Lincoln Tales
A Nonsense Anthology, by Carolyn Wells
Queer Little Folk, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Robin Hood, by J. Walker McSpadden
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, by Rudolph Erich Raspe
Twilight Stories, by Margaret Sydney, et. al.

What Can You Do With These Tales?

1. Read them to yourself, for fun.

2. Read them to your kids or students. They'll have fun, and their cultural literacy will grow. They'll become familiar with our literary history. They'll understand common allusions that come from classic tales

3. Learn them so you can tell them.

4. Adapt them into your own stories. Change any or all of the characters, the setting, the antagonists, the conflict, and make the story your own. Tell your new story, or try to get it published.



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Picture Credits
Original bunny climbing rope picture by Paige Miglio (copyright 2000 ©) from One More Bunny authored by Rick Walton.
Original purple monster picture by Renee Williams-Andriani (copyright 1998 ©) from Really, Really Bad School Jokes authored by Rick Walton.
Original bullfrog seated picture by Chris McAllister (copyright 1999 ©) from Bullfrog Pops! authored by Rick Walton.
Electronic modifications by Ann Walton.
Last updated: September 27, 2003
Copyright 1999 © Rick Walton. All rights reserved.