Ages 9-12
Complex tales exploring justice, courage, and wisdom. Ideal for developing critical thinking.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 3-5
The Selkie Wife: A Scottish Tale of Love and the Sea
The Selkie Wife: A Scottish Tale of Love and the Sea: On the rocky shores of Scotland, where the North Sea crashes against ancient cliffs, there lived a
Arabian Nights
Ages 9-12
The Enchanted Horse
The Enchanted Horse, or Ebony Horse, from the Thousand and One Nights - a Persian prince masters a flying mechanical horse, wins a princess, and outwits the inventor who steals her away.
Arabian Nights
Ages 9-12
The Prince and the Sphinx
The Prince and the Sphinx: In ancient Egypt, when the pyramids were still bright with polished limestone and reflected the sun like beacons to the gods, there
Arabian Nights
Ages 9-12
Joha and the Donkey
The famous tale of Joha, his son and their donkey. On the road to market, every passer-by criticises how they use the animal, and Joha keeps changing to please each new critic until he has pleased no one and lost the donkey: the classic story of why you cannot satisfy everyone.
Chinese Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Mulan: The Warrior Maiden and the Price of Duty
Mulan: The Warrior Maiden and the Price of Duty: In the provinces of northern China, where the Great Wall stretched like a stone dragon across mountains and
Arabian Nights
Ages 9-12
Nasreddin Hodja and the Smell of Soup
Nasreddin Hodja and the Smell of Soup: In the bustling streets of Aksehir, a small town in Anatolia, there lived a man of great wit and humble wisdom named
Chinese Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Legend of the White Snake: Love Beyond Form and Fear
The Legend of the White Snake: Love Beyond Form and Fear: In the misty valleys of ancient China, where dragons still whispered through bamboo groves and
Chinese Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Monkey King’s Journey to the West: Pride and Redemption
The Monkey King's Journey to the West: Pride and Redemption: Before time itself had been properly counted, when the heavens and earth were still learning to
Chinese Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Butterfly Lovers: Transcendent Love Beyond Death
The Butterfly Lovers: Transcendent Love Beyond Death: In the southern regions of ancient China, where green mountains rose like sleeping dragons and rivers
Chinese Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl: A Love Across the Heavens
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl: A Love Across the Heavens: In the empire’s most remote valley, where mountains touched the clouds and the river ran clear as
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Tortoise and the Baboon
The African Bantu fable of a baboon who invites a tortoise to a feast hung out of reach in a tree, and the tortoise's patient revenge laid across a stretch of fire-blackened ground - the reciprocal-inhospitality story, international tale type ATU 60.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Abiyoyo: The Monster and the Boy
Abiyoyo: The Monster and the Boy: In a small South African village nestled at the edge of the high veld, where grasslands stretched endlessly toward a horizon