Children's books and activities

Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths

Many kids are fascinated by fairy tales, folktales, tall tales, myths, ghost stories, and pourquoi stories from around the world. We've gathered up a great collection of books, activities, apps, and websites for learning all about folktales, fairy tales and myths.

Try pairing fiction with nonfiction books and exploring different genres (like poetry and biographies) and formats (like graphic novels and audio books). You'll be creating your own "text sets" — collections of texts focused on a specific topic, such as folktales, fairy tales, and myths. Reading widely in this way helps children build background knowledge, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

You may also want to explore the writing, oral storytelling, poetry, mapmaking, and other creative activities featured in our guide, We Are Storytellers: Exploring Multicultural Folktales, Fairy Tales, and Myths.

Young girl in a homemade crown.

Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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A Pot o' Gold: A Treasury of Irish Stories, Poetry, Folklore and (of course) Blarney

By:
Kathleen Krull
Illustrated by: David McPhail

Age Level: 3-6 years old

All the Way to Lhasa: A Tale from Tibet

By:
Barbara Berger

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Anansi Goes Fishing

By:
Eric Kimmel
Illustrated by: Janet Stevens

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Andy and the Lion

By:
James Daugherty

Age Level: 3-6 years old

A Big Bed for Little Snow

By:
Grace Lin

Age Level: 3-6 years old

illustrated cover of A Big Mooncake for Little Star showing a child eating the moon.

A Big Mooncake for Little Star

By:
Grace Lin

Age Level: 3-6 years old

A Squash and a Squeeze

By:
Julia Donaldson
Illustrated by: Axel Scheffler

Age Level: 3-6 years old

A Story, A Story

By:
Gail Haley

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Agua, Agua, Agua

By:
Pat Mora
Illustrated by: Jose Ortega

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Alone in the Forest

By:
Bhajju Shyam
, Gita Wolf

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Anansi The Spider: A Tale From the Ashanti

By:
Gerald McDermott

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Ashley Bryan: Poems and Folktales

By:
Ashley Bryan

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Ashpet: An Appalachian Tale

By:
Joanne Compton
Illustrated by: Kenn Compton

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Beautiful Blackbird

By:
Ashley Bryan

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story

By:
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Borreguita and the Coyote

By:
Verna Aardema
Illustrated by: Petra Mathers

Age Level: 3-6 years old

illustrated cover of Brush of the Gods showing Chinese children watching boy paint a horse on a wall.

Brush of the Gods

By:
Lenore Look
Illustrated by: Meilo So

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Burro's Tortillas

By:
Terri Fields
Illustrated by: Jacqueline Rogers

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Busy-Busy Little Chick

By:
Janice Harrington Janice Harrington
Illustrated by: Brian Pinkney

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Can You See What I See? Once Upon a Time

By:
Walter Wick

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Cinderelephant

By:
Emma Dodd

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Coyote and the Sky: How the Sun, Moon, and Stars Began

By:
Emmett Garcia

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest

By:
Gerald McDermott

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Cuckoo: A Mexican Folktale / Cucu: Un cuento folklorico mexicano

By:
Lois Ehlert

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Doña Flor

By:
Pat Mora
Illustrated by: Raul Colón

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Feathers for Peacock

By:
Jacqueline Jules
Illustrated by: Helen Cann

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Flossie and the Fox

By:
Patricia McKissack
Illustrated by: Rachel Isadora

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night

By:
Peter Spier

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

By:
Mo Willems

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale

By:
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Illustrated by: Susy Waters

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Hatseller and the Monkeys

By:
Baba Diakite

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia

By:
Won-Ldy Paye
, Margaret Lippert
Illustrated by: Julie Paschkis

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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How Chipmunk Got His Stripes

By:
James Bruchac
, Joseph Bruchac
Illustrated by: Ariane Dewey

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Interrupting Chicken

By:
David Ezra Stein

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Jabuti the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon

By:
Gerald McDermott

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Jack and the Beanstalk

By:
Nina Crews

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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John Henry

By:
Julius Lester
Illustrated by: Jerry Pinkney

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

By:
Simms Taback

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Jump! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

By:
Van Dyke Parks
, Malcolm Jones
Illustrated by: Barry Moser

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Kumak's River: A Tale from the Far North

By:
Michael Bania

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Kumak’s Fish: A Tall Tale from the Far North

By:
Michael Bania

Age Level: 3-6 years old

La Princesa and the Pea

By:
Susan Middleton Elya
Illustrated by: Juana Martinez-Neal

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Lady Hahn and Her Seven Friends

By:
Yumi Heo

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Little Red Cowboy Hat

By:
Susan Lowell
Illustrated by: Randy Cecil

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Little Red Hen

By:
Jerry Pinkney

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Little Red Riding Hood

By:
Jerry Pinkney

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Little Red Riding Hood: A Newfangled Prairie Tale

By:
Lisa Campbell Ernst

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria

By:
Aaron Shephard
Illustrated by: David Wisniewski

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Medio Pollito / Half-Chicken

By:
Alma Flor Ada
Illustrated by: Kim Howard

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Monkey: A Trickster from India

By:
Gerald McDermott

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Moon Rope/Un lazo a la luna

By:
Lois Ehlert

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Moonstruck: The True Story of the Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon

By:
Gennifer Choldenko

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Mousetropolis

By:
R. Gregory Christie

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

By:
John Steptoe

Age Level: 3-6 years old

New York's Bravest

By:
Mary Pope Osborne
Illustrated by: Steve Johnson

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Paco and the Giant Chile Plant

By:
Keith Polette
Illustrated by: Elizabeth O. Dulemba

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Paul Bunyan

By:
Steven Kellogg

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Pecos Bill: A Tall Tale

By:
Steven Kellogg
Illustrated by: Laura Robb

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Pirate vs. Pirate

By:
Mary Quattlebaum
Illustrated by: Alexandra Boiger

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Prairie Chicken Little

By:
Jackie Mims Hopkins
Illustrated by: Henry Cole

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett

By:
Steven Kellogg

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Shrek!

By:
William Steig

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Strega Nona

By:
Tomie dePaola

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Sungura and Leopard: A Swahili Trickster Tale

By:
Barbara Knutson

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

By:
William Steig

Age Level: 3-6 years old

cover of "Tasty Baby Belly Button" showing a dog and girl with a sword

Tasty Baby Belly Buttons

By:
Judy Sierra
Illustrated by: Meilo So

Age Level: 3-6 years old

That's What Leprechauns Do

By:
Eve Bunting
Illustrated by: Emily Arnold McCully

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Banza: A Haitian Story

By:
Diane Wolkstein
Illustrated by: Marc Brown

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Bossy Gallito: A Traditional Cuban Folktale / Bossy Gallito: El gallo de bodas:

By:
Lucía González
Illustrated by: Lulu Delacre

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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The Crocodile and the Scorpion

By:
Rebecca Emberley
Illustrated by: Ed Emberley

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The First Tortilla: A Bilingual Story

By:
Rudolfo Anaya
Illustrated by: Amy Córdova

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

By:
Paul Goble
Illustrated by: Paul Goble

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Jack Tales

By:
Richard Chase

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters

By:
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrated by: Janet Ahlberg

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Legend of the Poinsettia

By:
Tomie dePaola

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Leprechaun's Gold

By:
Pamela Duncan Edwards
Illustrated by: Henry Cole

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Lion and the Mouse

By:
Jerry Pinkney

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Little Red Hen

By:
Paul Galdone

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale

By:
Jan Brett

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Most Amazing Bird

By:
Michael Arvaaluk Kusugak
Illustrated by: Andrew Qappik

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Polar Bear Son: An Inuit Tale

By:
Lydia Dabcovich

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Runaway Piggy

By:
James Luna
Illustrated by: Laura Lacamara

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Seven Chinese Sisters

By:
Kathy Tucker
Illustrated by: Grace Lin

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote

By:
Tony Johnston
Illustrated by: Tomie dePaola

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks

By:
Katherine Paterson
Illustrated by: Diane and Leo Dillon

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Tale of Tricky Fox

By:
Jim Aylsworth
Illustrated by: Barbara McClintock

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Teeny-Tiny Woman

By:
Paul Galdone

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Three Bears

By:
Paul Galdone

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

By:
Jerry Pinkney

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Three Little Javelinas

By:
Susan Lowell
Illustrated by: Jim Harris

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Three Little Pigs

By:
Paul Galdone

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Three Little Pigs

By:
James Marshall

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf

By:
Mark Teague

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Three Pigs

By:
Steven Kellogg

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Tomten

By:
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrated by: Harald Wiberg

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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The Tortoise and the Hare

By:
Jerry Pinkney

Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Whingdingdilly

By:
Bill Peet

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World

By:
Selby Beeler
Illustrated by: G. Brian Karas

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Tico and the Golden Wings

By:
Leo Lionni

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Tiger and Turtle

By:
James Rumford

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Tikki Tikki Tembo

By:
Arlene Mosel

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Toad Is the Uncle of Heaven: A Vietnamese Folktale

By:
Jeanne Lee

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Too Much Noise

By:
Ann McGovern
Illustrated by: Simms Taback

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur!: A Palestinian Tale

By:
Margaret Read MacDonald
Illustrated by: Alik Arzoumanian

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales

By:
Julius Lester
Illustrated by: Jerry Pinkney

Age Level: 3-6 years old

We Are Water Protectors

By:
Carole Lindstrom
Illustrated by: Michaela Goade

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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What's the Hurry Fox? And Other Animal Tales

By:
Zora Neale Hurston
Illustrated by: Bryan Collier

Age Level: 3-6 years old

When Turtle Grew Feathers: A Tale from the Choctaw Nation

By:
Tim Tingle
Illustrated by: Stacey Schuett

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China

By:
Ai-Ling Louie
Illustrated by: Ed Young

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Yours Truly, Goldilocks

By:
Alma Flor Ada
Illustrated by: Leslie Tryon

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale from West Africa

By:
Gerald McDermott

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Animal Crackers Fly the Coop

By:
Kevin O'Malley

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Clever Jack Takes the Cake

By:
Candace Fleming
Illustrated by: G. Brian Karas

Age Level: 6-9 years old

A Gift of Gracias: The Legend of Altagracia

By:
Julia Alvarez

Age Level: 6-9 years old

A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa

By:
Virginia Hamilton
Illustrated by: Barry Moser

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Abiyoyo

By:
Pete Seeger
Illustrated by: Michael Hays

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story

By:
Tomie dePaola

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Aesop's Fables

By:
Jerry Pinkney

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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American Tall Tales

By:
Mary Pope Osborne
Illustrated by: Michael McCurdy

Age Level: 6-9 years old

An Illustrated Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales

By:
Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrated by: Anastasiya Archipova

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Ashley Bryan's African Tales, Uh-huh

By:
Ashley Bryan

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave

By:
Marianna Mayer
Illustrated by: Kinuko Y. Craft

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Banjo Granny

By:
Sarah Martin Busse
, Jacqueline Martin

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Between Earth and Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places

By:
Joseph Bruchac
Illustrated by: Thomas Locker

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Boy of the Three Year Nap

By:
Dianne Snyder
Illustrated by: Allen Say

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Brave Wolf and the Thunderbird

By:
Joseph Medicine Crow
Illustrated by: Linda R. Martin

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Bremen Town Musician

By:
Jacob Grimm

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella

By:
Robert D. San Souci
Illustrated by: Brian Pinkney

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam

By:
Sherry Garland
Illustrated by: Trina Schart Hyman

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Chukfi Rabbit's Big, Bad Bellyache: A Trickster Tale

By:
Greg Rodgers
Illustrated by: Leslie Stall Widener

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend and Tall Tale

By:
Robert San Souci
Illustrated by: Brian Pinkney

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

By:
Ingri Parin d'Aulaire
, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Davy Crockett Saves the World

By:
Rosalyn Schanzer

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Dust Devil

By:
Anne Isaacs
Illustrated by: Paul O. Zelinsky

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Encyclopedia Mythologica: Gods and Heroes Pop-Up

By:
Matthew Reinhart
, Robert Sabuda
Illustrated by: Robert Sabuda

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Fables

By:
Arnold Lobel

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists

By:
Chris Duffy

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Fin M'Coul: The Giant of Knockmany Hill

By:
Tomie dePaola

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Fly, Eagle, Fly: An African Tale

By:
Christopher Gregorowski
Illustrated by: Niki Daly

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Folktales From Turkey: From Agri to Zelve

By:
Serpil Ural
, Arin
Illustrated by: Dilara

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems

By:
Marilyn Singer
Illustrated by: Josee Masse

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella

By:
Paul Fleischman
Illustrated by: Julie Paschkis

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Hansel and Gretel

By:
Bethan Woollvin

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Hansel and Gretel

By:
Rachel Isadora

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Heckedy Peg

By:
Audrey Wood
Illustrated by: Don Wood

Age Level: 6-9 years old

cover of "Her Seven Brothers" showing two people outside a teepee tent

Her Seven Brothers

By:
Paul Goble

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Horse Hooves and Chicken Feet: Mexican Folktales

By:
Neil Philip

Age Level: 6-9 years old

How Rabbit Tricked Otter and Other Cherokee Trickster Stories

By:
Gayle Ross

Age Level: 6-9 years old

How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable

By:
Barbara J. Atwater
Illustrated by: Mindy Dwyer

Age Level: 6-9 years old

How Raven Stole the Sun

By:
Maria Williams
Illustrated by: Felix Vigil

Age Level: 6-9 years old

cover of "How the Stars Fell into the Sky" showing a girl holding a star and a pile of stars next to her

How the Stars Fell into the Sky

By:
Jerrie Oughton
Illustrated by: Lisa Desimini

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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I Am Tama, Lucky Cat: A Japanese Legend

By:
Wendy Henrichs
Illustrated by: Toshiko Jaeggi

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Issun Boshi: The One-Inch Boy

By:
Raphael Icinori

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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It's All Greek to Me

By:
Jon Scieszka

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Jangles: A Big Fish Story

By:
David Shannon

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Jason and the Argonauts: The First Great Quest in Greek Mythology

By:
Robert Byrd

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Joha Makes a Wish: A Middle Eastern Tale

By:
Eric A. Kimmel
Illustrated by: Omar Rayyan

Age Level: 6-9 years old

John Henry: An American Legend

By:
Ezra Jack Keats

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book

By:
Yuyi Morales

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book

By:
Yuyi Morales

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Just So Stories

By:
Rudyard Kipling

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Kissimmee Pete and the Hurricane

By:
Jan Day
Illustrated by: Janeen Mason

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Knock on Wood: Poems about Superstitions

By:
Janet Wong
Illustrated by: Julie Paschkis

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea

By:
Anne O'Brien

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Lies and Other Tall Tales

By:
Zora Neale Hurston
Illustrated by: Christopher Myers

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Little Red

By:
Bethan Woollvin

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China

By:
Ed Young

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Lotus and Feather

By:
Ji-li Jiang

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains

By:
Barbara Knutson

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale

By:
Carmen Agra Deedy
Illustrated by: Michael Austin

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse

By:
Marilyn Singer
Illustrated by: Josee Masse

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Miz Berlin Walks

By:
Jane Yolen
Illustrated by: Floyd Cooper

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Monsters: A Magic Lens Hunt for Creatures of Myth, Legend, Fairy Tale, and Fiction

By:
Celine Potard
Illustrated by: Sophie Ledesma

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Mountain Men: True Grit and Tall Tales

By:
Andrew Glass

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon

By:
Carl Sandburg
Illustrated by: Rosanne Litzinger

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Ol' Clip-Clop: A Ghost Story

By:
Patricia McKissack
Illustrated by: Eric Velasquez

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Once Upon a Time: Traditional Latin American Tales / Habia una vez: Cuentos tradicionales Latino Americanos

By:
Reuben Martinez
Illustrated by: Raul Colon

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Once Upon a Timeless Tale Collection

By:
Miriam Margolyes

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Out of the Egg

By:
Tina Matthews

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Pandora

By:
Robert Burleigh
Illustrated by: Raul Colon

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Pattan's Pumpkin: A Traditional Flood Story from Southern India

By:
Chitra Soundar
Illustrated by: Frané Lessac

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Peach Boy And Other Japanese Children's Favorite Stories

By:
Florence Sakade
Illustrated by: Yoshisuke Kurosaki

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Please, Malese! A Trickster Tale from Haiti

By:
Amy MacDonald
Illustrated by: Emily Lisker

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters and Other Wily Characters

By:
Patricia McKissack
Illustrated by: Andre Carrilho

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Previously

By:
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrated by: Bruce Ingman

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Princess and the Peas

By:
Rachel Himes

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Princess Tales Around the World

By:
Grace Maccarone
Illustrated by: Gail de Marcken

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Princess Tales: Once Upon a Time in Rhyme with Seek-and-Find Pictures

By:
Grace Maccarone
Illustrated by: Gail de Marcken

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Pushing up the Sky: Seven Native American Plays for Children

By:
Joseph Bruchac

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Rabbit and the Well

By:
Deborah L. Duvall
Illustrated by: Murv Jacob

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Rabbit Ears Treasury of World Tales: Volume Two

By:
Rabbit Ears

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Rain Player

By:
David Wisniewski

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Rapunzel

By:
Bethan Woollvin

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Rapunzel

By:
Brothers Grimm
, Barbara Rogasky
Illustrated by: Trina Schart Hyman

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Rapunzel

By:
Rachel Isadora

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Riding a Donkey Backwards: Wise and Foolish Tales of Mulla Nasruddin

By:
Sean Taylor
Khayaal Theater Company
Illustrated by: Shirin Adl

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Roadrunner's Dance

By:
Rudolfo Anaya
Illustrated by: David Diaz

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow

By:
Robert San Souci
Illustrated by: E.B. Lewis

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Romulus and Remus

By:
Anne Rockwell

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John "Appleseed" Chapman

By:
Esme Raji Codell
Illustrated by: Lynne Rae Perkins

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Señor Cat's Romance and Other Favorite Stories from Latin America

By:
Lucía González
Illustrated by: Lulu Delacre

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Sister Tricksters: Rollicking Tales of Clever Females

By:
Robert San Souci
Illustrated by: Daniel San Souci

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Sitti and the Cats: A Tale of Friendship

By:
Sally Bahous Allen

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Sleeping Beauty

By:
Mahlon Craft
, K.V. Craft
Illustrated by: K.V. Craft

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Snow Leopard

By:
Jackie Morris

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Snow White: A Three-Dimensional Fairytale Theater

By:
Jane Ray

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Sparrow Girl

By:
Sara Pennypacker
Illustrated by: Yoko Tanaka

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Stone Soup

By:
Jon J Muth

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Stone Soup

By:
Marcia Brown

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Stories from the Billabong

By:
James Vance Marshall
Illustrated by: Frances Firebrace

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel

By:
Patricia Storace
Illustrated by: Raúl Colón

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Sure as Sunrise: Tales of Bruh Rabbit and his Walkin' Talkin' Friends

By:
Alice McGill
Illustrated by: Don Tate

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Swamp Angel

By:
Anne Isaacs

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Tales from the Brothers Grimm

By:
Brothers Grimm
Illustrated by: Herbert Leupin

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection

By:
Alma Flor Ada
Illustrated by: Isabel Campoy

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Tales Told in Tents: Stories from Central Asia

By:
Sally Pomme
Illustrated by: Sophie Herxheimer

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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The Beautiful Stories of Life: Six Greeks Myths, Retold

By:
Cynthia Rylant
Illustrated by: Carson Ellis

Age Level: 6-9 years old

cover of "The Bee-Man of Orn" showing a man moving beehives

The Bee-Man of Orn

By:
Frank Stockton
Illustrated by: Maurice Sendak

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Castle on Hester Street

By:
Linda Heller
Illustrated by: Boris Kulikov

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred

By:
Samantha Vamos
Illustrated by: Rafael López

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Emperor and the Kite

By:
Jane Yolen
Illustrated by: Ed Young

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story

By:
Joseph Bruchac
Illustrated by: Ann Vojtech

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Flute Player

By:
Michael Lacapa

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Giant and the Beanstalk

By:
Diane Stanley

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Story

By:
Judy Sierra
Illustrated by: Reynold Ruffins

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Gift of the Sun: A Tale from South Africa

By:
Dianne Stewart
Illustrated by: Jude Daly

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Girl Who Wore Too Much: A Folktale from Thailand

By:
Margaret MacDonald

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus

By:
Aliki Aliki

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico

By:
Nina Jaffe
Illustrated by: Enrique O. Sanchez

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac

By:
Dawn Casey
Illustrated by: Anne Wilson

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale

By:
Yumi Heo

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Korean Cinderella

By:
Shirley Climo
Illustrated by: Ruth Heller

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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The Legend of Lightning and Thunder

By:
Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Legend of the Bluebonnet

By:
Tomie dePaola

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Legend of the Caribou Boy / Ekwò Dǫzhìa Wegond

By:
George Blondin
Illustrated by: Ray McSwain

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Little Mermaid

By:
Jerry Pinkney

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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The Mighty 12: Superheroes of Greek Myth

By:
Charles Smith
Illustrated by: P. Craig Russell

Age Level: 6-9 years old

cover of "The Story of the Milky Way" showing an animal made of stars crossing the sky

The Milky Way: A Cherokee Tale

By:
Joseph Bruchac
, Gayle Ross

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book

By:
Virginia Hamilton
Illustrated by: Diane Dillon

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

By:
Michael Morpurgo
Illustrated by: Emma Chichester Clark

Age Level: 6-9 years old

cover of "The Queen Bee" showing a bee in a crown with a sceptre

The Queen Bee

By:
Grimm Brothers

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Rabbit and the Turtle

By:
Eric Carle

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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The Rough-Face Girl

By:
Rafe Martin
Illustrated by: David Shannon

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women

By:
Kartrin Tchana

Age Level: 6-9 years old

cover of "The Shipwrecked Sailor" showing an Egyptian sailboat

The Shipwrecked Sailor: An Egyptian Tale with Hieroglyphics

By:
Tamara Bower

Age Level: 6-9 years old

cover of The Singing Rock and Other Brand New Fairy Tales showing six panels with different illustrations.

The Singing Rock and Other Brand-New Fairy Tales

By:
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
Illustrated by: Simini Blocker

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Star People: A Lakota Story

By:
S. D. Nelson

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

By:
Jon Scieszka
Illustrated by: Lane Smith

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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The Three Golden Oranges

By:
Alma Flor Ada
Illustrated by: Stephen Cartwright

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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The Three Little Pigs: An Architectural Tale

By:
Steven Guarnaccia
Illustrated by: Steven Guarnaccia

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Three Pigs

By:
David Wiesner

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Tiger and the Brahmin

By:
Bran Gleeson
Illustrated by: Kurt Vargo

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Walrus Who Escaped

By:
Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley
, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley
Illustrated by: Anthony Brennan

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Weather's Bet

By:
Ed Young

Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Woman Who Outshone the Sun / La mujer que brillaba aún más que el sol

By:
Alejandro Cruz Martinez
Illustrated by: Fernando Olivera

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Thea's Tree

By:
Alison Jackson
Illustrated by: Janet Pedersen

Age Level: 6-9 years old

There's a Wolf at the Door: Five Classic Tales

By:
Zoe Alley
Illustrated by: R.W. Alley

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back

By:
Joseph Bruchac
Illustrated by: Thomas Locker

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Thunder Rose

By:
Jerdine Nolan
Illustrated by: Kadir Nelson

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Tim O'Toole and the Wee Folk

By:
Gerald McDermott

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Treasury of Greek Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes & Monsters

By:
Donna Jo Napoli
Illustrated by: Christina Balit

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Tuko and the Birds: A Tale from the Philippines

By:
Shirley Climo
Illustrated by: Francisco Mora

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Ugly

By:
Donna Jo Napoli
Illustrated by: Lita Judge

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fables

By:
Helen Ward
Illustrated by: Helen Ward

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Vietnamese Children's Favorite Stories

By:
Phuoc Thi Minh Tran
Illustrated by: Hop Thi Nguyen

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Waiting for the Biblioburro

By:
Monica Brown
Illustrated by: John Parra

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Whiskers, Tails and Wings: Animal Folktales from Mexico

By:
Judy Goldman
Illustrated by: Fabricio Vanden Broeck

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Who Wants to Be a Princess?

By:
Bridget Heos
Illustrated by: m+Migy

Age Level: 6-9 years old

""

Who's In Rabbit's House?

By:
Verna Aardema
Illustrated by: Diane Dillon

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Wiley and the Hairy Man

By:
Judy Sierra
Illustrated by: Brian Pinkney

Age Level: 6-9 years old

cover of "Wings" showing boy flying with white wings

Wings

By:
Christopher Myers

Age Level: 6-9 years old

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fables to Read Together

By:
Mary Ann Hoberman
Illustrated by: Michael Emberley

Age Level: 6-9 years old

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Young Zeus

By:
G. Brian Karas

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Age Level: 9-12 years old

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Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry

By:
Scott Reynolds Nelson
, Marc Aronson

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Amazing Greek Myths of Wonder and Blunders

By:
Michael Townsend

Age Level: 9-12 years old

American Born Chinese

By:
Gene Yang
Illustrated by: Lark Pien

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Apollo: The Brilliant One (Olympians series)

By:
George O'Connor

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of The Iliad

By:
Rosemary Sutcliffe
Illustrated by: Alan Lee

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Calamity Jack

By:
Dean Hale
, Nathan Hale
Illustrated by: Shannon Hale

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Celtic Mythology for Kids: Tales of Selkies, Giants, and the Sea

By:
Chris Pinard

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Dog People: Native Dog Stories

By:
Joseph Bruchac

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Fiesta Femenina

By:
Mary-Joan Gerson
Illustrated by: Maya Christina Gonzalez

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America

By:
Lulu Delacre

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Greek Myths

By:
Ann Turnbull

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Grimms' Fairy Tales

By:
Jacob Grimm
, Wilhelm Grimm

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Hiawatha and the Peacemaker

By:
Robbie Robertson

Age Level: 9-12 years old

If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella

By:
Laura Whipple
Illustrated by: Laura Beingessner

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Iron Hearted Violet

By:
Kelly Barnhill

Age Level: 9-12 years old

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Knights of the Kitchen Table (Time Warp Trio series)

By:
Jon Scieszka
Illustrated by: Lane Smith

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Lalani of the Distant Sea

By:
Erin Entrada Kelly

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Legends of the Iroquois

By:
Tehanetorens (Ray Fadden)

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up in a War

By:
Kathy Henderson
Illustrated by: Jane Ray

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Magic Moments / Momentos Magicos

By:
Olga Loya

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales

By:
Nelson Mandela

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki

By:
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Illustrated by: Jeffrey Alan Love

Age Level: 9-12 years old

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

By:
Rick Riordan

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods

By:
Rick Riordan

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Ramayana: Divine Loophole

By:
Sabjay Patel

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Rapunzel's Revenge

By:
Shannon Hale
, Dean Hale
Illustrated by: Nathan Hale

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Simeon's Gift

By:
Emma Walton Hamilton
Illustrated by: Gennady Spirin

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By:
Michael Morpugo

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Starry River of the Sky

By:
Grace Lin

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Tales From the Arabian Nights: Stories of Adventure, Magic, Love, and Betrayal

By:
Donna Jo Napoli
Illustrated by: Christina Balit

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Tenggren's Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights

By:
Gustav Tenngren

Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Adventures of Thor the Thunder God

By:
Lis Lunge-Larsen
Illustrated by: Jim Madsen

Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Boggart

By:
Susan Cooper

Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Dragon Prince: Stories and Legends from Vietnam

By:
Thich Nhat Hanh

Age Level: 9-12 years old

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The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America

By:
Jamie Hernandez

Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Giant Bear: An Inuit Folktale

By:
Jose Angutingunrik
Illustrated by: Eva Widermann

Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

By:
Kelly Barnhill

Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Jumbies

By:
Tracey Baptiste

Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Metropolitans

By:
Carol Goodman

Age Level: 9-12 years old

illustrated cover of The Moon. It shows a girl looking up at the large moon.

The Moon

By:
Hannah Pang
Illustrated by: Thomas Hegbrook

Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Odyssey

By:
Gareth Hinds

Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee

By:
Barbara Duncan

Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Tale of Despereaux

By:
Kate DiCamillo
Illustrated by: Timothy Basil Ering

Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Trickster and the Troll

By:
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Wild Swans

By:
Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrated by: Helen Crawfor-White

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Thundercluck!

By:
Paul Tillery IV
Illustrated by: Meg Wittwer

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Treasury of Egyptian Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals

By:
Donna Jo Napoli
Illustrated by: Christina Balit

Age Level: 9-12 years old

When the Sea Turned to Silver

By:
Grace Lin

Age Level: 9-12 years old

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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

By:
Grace Lin

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Why Leopard has Spots: Dan Stories from Liberia

By:
Won-Ldy Paye
, Margaret Lippert
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan

Age Level: 9-12 years old

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Wild Swans

By:
Xanthe Gresham Knight
Illustrated by: Charlotte Gastaut

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Wise Fool: Fables from the Islamic World

By:
Shahrukh Husain
Illustrated by: Micha Archer

Age Level: 9-12 years old