fairy tales – My Audio School

June 30, 2011August 2, 2011

The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang?s Fairy Books or Andrew Lang?s ?Coloured? Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories.? (summary from wikipedia)

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Total running time:? 11 hours, 24 minutes

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00 ? Dedication and Preface

01 ? The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership

02 ? The Six Swans

03 ? The Dragon of the North

04 ? Story of the Emperor?s New Clothes

05 ? The Golden Crab

06 ? The Iron Stove

07 ? The Dragon and His Grandmother

08 ? The Donkey Cabbage

09 ? The Little Green Frog

10 ? The Seven-Headed Serpent

11 ? The Grateful Beasts

12 ? The Giants and the Herd-boy

13 ? The Invisible Prince

14 ? The Crow

15 ? How Six Men travelled through the Wide World

16 ? The Wizard King

17 ? The Nixy

18 ? The Glass Mountain

19 ? Alphege, or the Green Monkey

20 ? Fairer-Than-A-Fairy

21 ? The Three Brothers

22 ? The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise

23 ? The Glass Axe

24 ? The Dead Wife

25 ? In The Land of Souls

26 ? The White Duck

27 ? The Witch and Her Servants

28 ? The Magic Ring

29 ? The Flower Queen?s Daughter

30 ? The Flying Ship

31 ? The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son

32 ? The Story of King Frost

33 ? The Death of the Sun-hero

34 ? The Witch

35 ? The Hazel-nut Child

36 ? The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus

37 ? Prince Ring

38 ? The Swineherd

39 ? How To Tell A True Princess

40 ? The Blue Mountains

41 ? The Tinder-box

42 ? The Witch in the Stone B

43 ? Thumbelina

44 ? The Nightingale

45 ? Hermod and Hadvor

46 ? The Steadfast Tin-Soldier

47 ? Blockhead Hans

48 ? A Story about a Darning-needle

June 26, 2011August 7, 2012

The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

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Total running time: 12 hours, 22 minutes

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00 ? Preface

01 ? The Twelve Dancing Princesses

02 ? The Princess Mayblossom

03 ? Soria Moria Castle

04 ? The Death of Koshchei the Deathless

05 ? The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen

06 ? The Master Thief

07 ? Brother and Sister

08 ? Princess Rosette

09 ? The Enchanted Pig

10 ? The Norka

11 ? The Wonderful Birch

12 ? Jack and the Beanstalk

13 ? The Little Good Mouse

14 ? Graciosa and Percinet

15 ? The Three Princesses of Whiteland

16 ? The Voice of Death

21 ? The True History of Little Goldenhood

22 ? The Golden Branch

23 ? The Three Dwarfs

24 ? Dapplegrim

25 ? The Enchanted Canary

26 ? The Twelve Brothers

27 ? Rapunzel

28 ? The Nettle Spinner

29 ? Farmer Weatherbeard

34 ? The Golden Goose

35 ? The Seven Foals

36 ? The Marvellous Musician

37 ? The Story of Sigurd

May 4, 2010May 31, 2011

Grimms’ Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm

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The following stories are selected from among Grimms’ most popular fairy tales. To listen to or to read the unabridged book of Grimms’ Fairy Tales (10 1/2 hours in length), use the following links:

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Summary: A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of fairy tales includes many of the world’s best known stories. In these dark foreboding woods, you will find: Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Lily and the Lion (better known as Beauty and the Beast), and Snow White and Rose Red, among other timeless works. These tales were later heavily revised and sanitised, but here are presented closer to their grim and beloved originals. (Summary by Marlo Dianne for Librivox)

The Golden Bird

Hans in Luck

The Travelling Musicians

The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean

Briar Rose

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

The Fisherman and his Wife

The Frog Prince

The Cat and Mouse in Partnership

The Goose Girl

The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet

Rapunzel

The Valiant Little Tailor

Hansel and Gretel

Little Red-Cap (or Little Red Riding Hood)

The Robber Bridegroom

Tom Thumb

Rumpelstiltskin

Clever Gretel

Ashputtel (or Cinderella)

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Clever Hans

The Four Clever Brothers

The Lily and the Lion (or Beauty and the Beast)

The Golden Goose

The King of The Golden Mountain

Snow White and Rose Red

November 23, 2009December 24, 2010

The Light Princess by George MacDonald

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Summary: Plenty of princesses have been cursed by wicked witches, but the curse placed on this princess by her evil aunt is an unusual one: it removes all the princess’s gravity. What can break the curse before the princess floats away? Perhaps the best thing for her would be to fall in love, but how a person with no gravity can fall in anything is just the problem. (summary by Laura Fox on Librivox)

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01 What! No Children? 00:02:03

02 Won’t I, Just? 00:04:32

03 She Can’t Be Ours 00:03:54

04 Where Is She? 00:04:06

05What Is to Be Done? 00:06:03

06 She Laughs Too Much 00:05:26

07 Try Metaphysics 00:09:39

08 Try a Drop of Water 00:08:33

09 Put Me In Again 00:12:39

10 Look at the Moon 00:06:48

11 Hiss! 00:09:56

12 Where is the Prince? 00:05:12

13 Here I Am 00:06:38

14 This is Very Kind of You 00:13:13

15 Look at the Rain! (finale) 00:05:20

October 9, 2009December 24, 2010

American Indian Fairy Tales by H. R. Schoolcraft and retold by William Trowbridge Larned

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Running time: 2.8 hours

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1:Iagoo, The Story-Teller 00:05:00

2:Shin-ge-bis Fools The North Wind 00:13:20

3:The Little Boy And Girl In The Clouds 00:13:52

4:The Child Of The Evening Star 00:24:27

5:The Boy Who Snared The Sun 00:15:48

6:How The Summer Came 00:20:01

7:Grasshopper 00:29:29

8:Mish-o-sha, The Magician 00:32:24

9:The Fairy Bride 00:14:47

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September 11, 2009August 7, 2012

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

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Running time: 5 hours, 36 minutes.

4. The Old Woman and her Pig

5. How Jack went to Seek his Fortune

6. Mr. Vinegar

7. Nix Nought Nothing

13. Jack and the Beanstalk

14. The Story of the Three Little Pigs

15. The Master and his Pupil

16. Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse

17. Jack and His Golden Snuff-box

18. The Story of the Three Bears

19. Jack the Giant-Killer

25. The History of Tom Thumb

26. Mr. Fox

27. Lazy Jack

28. Johnny-cake

29. Earl Mar’s Daughter

30. Mr. Miacca

31. Whittington and his Cat

32. The Strange Visitor

33. The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh

34. The Cat and the Mouse

35. The Fish and the Ring

36. The Magpie’s Nest

37. Kate Crackernuts

38. The Cauld Lad of Hilton

39. The Ass, the Table and the Stick

40. Fairy Ointment

41. The Well of the World’s End

42. Master of All Masters
43. The Three Heads of the Well

August 2, 2009December 24, 2010

Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki

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This book runs 7 hours, 36 minutes.

Preface

My Lord Bag of Rice

The Tongue-Cut Sparrow

The Story of Urashima Taro, The Fisher Lad

The Farmer and the Badger

The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage

The Adventures of Kintaro, The Golden Boy

The Story of Princess Hase

The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die

The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child

The Mirror of Maysuyama

The Goblin of Adachigahara

The Sagacious Monkey and the Boar

The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher

The Story of the Old Man who made Withered Trees to Flower

The Jelly Fish and the Monkey

The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab

The White Hare and the Crocodiles

The Story of Prince Yamato Take

Mornotaro, or The Story of the Son of a Peach

The Ogre of Rashornon

How an Old Man Lost His Wen

The Stones of Five Colors and The Empress Jokwa

June 24, 2009May 27, 2011

Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

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Running time: 5 hours, 51 minutes

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01 – The Emperor

02 – The Swineherd

03 – The Real Princess

04 – The Shoes of Fortune

11 – The Happy Family

12 – The Story of a Mother

13 – The False Collar

14 – The Shadow

15 – The Little Match Girl

16 – The Dream of Little Tuk

17 – The Naughty Boy

18 – The Red Shoes

June 16, 2009December 28, 2010

Snow White radio theater

Snow White presented by The Railroad Hour

May 29, 2009December 24, 2010

Rapunzel from Grimm’s Household Tales by Margaret Hung

Rapunzel

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May 28, 2009December 29, 2010

selected Fairy Tales from The Junior Classics by Patten

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The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods by Charles Perrault

Puss in Boots

Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault

Cinderella, retold by Miss Mulock

The Story of the Three Bears retold by Robert
Southey

Jack the Giant Killer

Tom Thumb retold by Joseph Jacobs

Blue Beard by Charles Perrault

The Brave Little Tailor by Anonymous

The Fair One with the Golden Locks retold by Miss Mulock

Beauty and the Beast

Jack and the Beanstalk by Anonymous

William Patten’s The Junior Classics, Volume 1, has over 14 hours of recorded material in it. To stream it on Librivox or to download it to MP3, click here.

May 28, 2009May 27, 2011

selected Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick which could be used to study Fairy Tales. This link will take you away from My Audio School.

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The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen

The Tinder-box by Hans Christian Andersen

The Constant Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen

The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen

The Flying Trunk by Hans Christian Andersen

The Darning Needle by Hans Christian Andersen

Pen and Inkstand by Hans Christian Andersen

These Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen were selected from the Junior Classics volume 1 by William Patten. The Junior Classics, Volume 1 by William Patten has over 14 hours of recorded material. To download the entire book to MP3, click here.

May 28, 2009December 29, 2010

Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm

Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick which could be used to study Fairy Tales. This link will take you away from My Audio School.

Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm

Thumbling by The Brothers Grimm

The Six Swans by The Brothers Grimm

Snow White and Rose Red by The Brothers Grimm

These Grimm’s Fairy Tales were selected from William Patten’s book The Junior Classics, Volume 1.

The Junior Classics, volume 1 is a very big book, with over 14 hours of recorded material. To stream this entire book on Librivox or to download it to MP3, click here.

May 18, 2009August 7, 2012