Research Guides: Children's Literature: Folk Tales and Fairy Tales

Folk Tales and Fairy Tales

Cinderella Books in the Education Library
Find different versions of Cinderella in the Education Library.
Cinderella: Twice Upon a Time: Multi-Cultural Cinderella
Explores a wide range of multi-cultural Cinderella stories, reflecting on similarities and differences of the stories.
SurLaLune Fairy Tales
Many annotated fairy tales, "including information about their histories, similarities with various tales, bibliographies and other tidbits."
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SurLaLune Fairy Tales features 49 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1,500 illustrations.

Also discover over 1,600 folktales & fairy tales from around the world in more than 40 full-text eBooks. A discussion forum is also available.
Encyclopedia Mythica
A well-organized, quick reference to gods and goddesses, legendary creatures, and monsters from a wide range of world mythologies and folklore.
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Online encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Oceania. Other features include a bestiary, section on legendary heroes, image gallery, and genealogical tables.
Aesop's Fables online collection
This online collection of Aesop's Fables includes 655+ fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed.
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Includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. There are many more on the way. Most were translated into English by Rev. George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) the rest are from Jean De La Fontaine in French and translated to English by several good Internet souls.

Included are Real Audio narrations, Classic Images, Random Images, Random Fables, Search Engine and much more on the way. Recently added are 127 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen.
Hans Christian Andersen
Full text of most of his 168 stories.