Category: Audio

July 10, 2017

How the Toad Got His Bruises (Fairy Tales from Brazil, 1917) by Elsie Spicer Eells

Once upon a time, ages and ages ago, the toad had a smooth skin. In those days he was a great gad about. He never could be found in his own house. If any...

July 8, 2017

JORINDA AND JORINDEL (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy. Now this fairy could take any shape she pleased. All...

July 6, 2017

THE GLASS DOG (American Fairy Tales) By L. FRANK BAUM

THE GLASS DOG http://ia600502.us.archive.org/13/items/childrensshortworks12_1107_librivox/childrensshortworks012_01_glassdog_pr.mp3 An accomplished wizard once lived on the top floor of a tenement house and passed his time in thoughtful study and studious thought. What he didn’t know about wizardry was...

July 1, 2017

Rapunzel (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire. These people had a...

June 29, 2017

How the Rabbit Lost His Tail (Fairy Tales from Brazil, 1917) by Elsie Spicer Eells

Once upon a time, ages and ages ago, the rabbit had a long tail, but the cat had none. She looked with envious eyes at the one which the rabbit had. It was exactly...

June 28, 2017

HANSEL AND GRETEL (Austria’s most popular fairy tale) by The Brothers Grimm

Hansel and Gretel Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little to bite and...