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Stone Soup
Ann McGovern
4.30 average rating, · 29.2k ratings
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Little Red Riding Hood
Trina Schart Hyman
4.16 average rating, · 25.1k ratings
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The Five Chinese Brothers
Claire Huchet Bishop
4.17 average rating, · 23.9k ratings
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Rumpelstiltskin
Paul O. Zelinsky
4.24 average rating, · 18.3k ratings
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Rapunzel
Paul O. Zelinsky
4.17 average rating, · 17.7k ratings
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The Blue Fairy Book
Andrew Lang
4.04 average rating, · 10.5k ratings
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The Sleeping Beauty
Trina Schart Hyman
4.27 average rating, · 8.4k ratings
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The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South
Robert D. San Souci
4.30 average rating, · 5.6k ratings
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The Kalevala
Elias Lönnrot
4.04 average rating, · 6.2k ratings
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The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures: The Ultimate A-Z of Fantastic Beings from Myth and Magic
John Matthews
4.14 average rating, · 6k ratings
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
W.B. Yeats
4.04 average rating, · 6.1k ratings
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D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths
Ingri d'Aulaire
4.39 average rating, · 4.8k ratings
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Italian Folktales
Italo Calvino
4.18 average rating, · 4.8k ratings
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Russian Fairy Tales
Alexander Afanasyev
4.19 average rating, · 4.7k ratings
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Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems
Marilyn Singer
4.13 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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The Annotated Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm
4.44 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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The Little Country
Charles de Lint
4.08 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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Withered Hill
David Barnett
4.04 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
Anonymous
4.00 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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The Brothers Grimm: Illuminated Fairy Tales, Vol. 1
Jacob Grimm
4.14 average rating, · 4k ratings
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Paul Bunyan
Steven Kellogg
4.06 average rating, · 4k ratings
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The Red Fairy Book
Andrew Lang
4.14 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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The Classic Fairy Tales
Maria Tatar
4.27 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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The Folklore of Discworld
Terry Pratchett
4.02 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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