tales

Collects folktales from cultures in Africa, the Middle East, Australia, and Oceania, each with notes on the tradition bearer, sources, date, original source, and national origin; featuring sacred, secular, fictional, and historical genres, and including an introductory essay.

Twenty illustrated stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.

"An illustrated collection of traditional Russian folktales"-- Provided by publisher.

Presents an illustrated collection of nineteen Chinese fokltales.

Retells three Latin American folk tales in graphic novel format, including the title story, in which a servant girl faces a seven-headed dragon.

A collection of twenty-six tales told by Scheherazade to save herself and other young girls from death at the Sultan's hands.

Three Latin American folktales include the story of La Yuna, a mermaid who lures men to her underwater domain, the tale of La Lechuza, an enormous owl with the face of a woman, and two gauchos' encounter with La Luz Mala, a spooky light that terrorizes travelers.

Presents a collection over seventy Irish stories including The Kildare Pooka, The Trooping Fairies, Changelings, and more.

Contains tales and a few poems from Ireland, including legends of ghosts, fairies, witches, priests, and saints.