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The crane, an elegant and beautiful bird, is considered to be auspicious in Japan. In this story, a poor farmer receives ...

Pinocchio's fortunes change quickly. In this chapter he becomes a "rich man"But for how long can he keep hold of his fortune? On the road home, he meets a fox and a cat who say they can make his money multiply many times over. Natasha continues her hilarious...

Another Oz book! Yes! Lots of unlikely characters and tons of fun. In this story, young King Randy of Regalia is visited by his old friend, Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant of Pumperdink. Together, they set out to visit their friend Jinnicky the Red Jinn in the Land of Ev.. On t...

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Picture by Bertie - a retake of the classic illustration by Walter Crane.Duration 3:15. Based on the Charming version by the Victorian writer Andrew Lang. Read by Natasha. Once upon a time there were three bears, who lived together in a house of their...

The Rainbow Book: Tales of Fun & Fancy is a book of children's stories from British author Mabel Henrietta Spielmann. Some are well known like "The Sleeping Beauty", and some were invented for the book and are a product of their time. Some tell about magic, some about little chil...

Balder Dead" is a beautiful epic poem by Matthew Arnold. It draws from Norse mythology to retell the story of the the death of Odin's son, Balder, instigated by the treacherous jealousy of Loki. (Summary by Nathan)...

Remember the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper? the Fox and the Sour Grapes? The Boy who Cried Wolf? These wonderful tales and hundreds more have been passed down to us over the centuries. The man credited with writing them, Aesop, was an Ancient Greek slave born about 620 B.C...

Subscribe in Apple PodcastsAstropup in ‘Gone with the Wind’. Dedicated to the Alrashed kids. Read by Richard Scott Written by Bertie Sound editing and emiss...

What would it be like to be a frog? Have you ever wanted to be one just for a day? You haven’t? Well Princess Beatrice loves animals so much that she once wished for just that… and she soon regretted it.………. ……… …….. ……. …… ….. ….

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Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute 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 (with the...