Katharine Pyle

Tales of Folk and Fairies

L. Frank Baum

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Brothers Grimm

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Oscar Wilde

E. Nesbit

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Kenneth Grahame

Charles Perrault

George MacDonald

Louisa May Alcott

Ruth Stiles Gannett

Hans Christian Andersen

Andrew Lang

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Frank R. Stockton

Abbie Phillips Walker

Frances Jenkins Olcott

Josef Kajetán Tyl

Matěj Mikšíček

Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki

Fantastic legends, myths and tales of magical creatures come alive in this meticulously edited collection by DigiCat. Content: The Dragon of the North My Father's Dragon The Reluctant Dragon The Book of Dragons The Book of Beasts Uncle James, or the Purple Stranger The Deliverers of Their Country The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told The Island of the Nine Whirlpools The Dragon Tamers The Fiery Dragon, or the Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold Kind Little Edmund, or the Caves and the Cockatrice Five Children and It The Phoenix and the Carpet Beowulf The Gorgon's Head The Chimæra The Minotaur The Dragon's Teeth Mermaids The Iron Wolf The Good Sea Monster The Ogre The Troll's Hammer Jack the Giant Killer Jack and the Bean-Stalk The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor The Enchanted Horse Beauty and the Beast Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass The Magical Monarch of Mo The Master Key The Sea Fairies Prince Mud-Turtle The Princess and the Goblin The Princess and Curdie Lilybell and Thistledown Ripple, the Water Sprite The Brownie and the Princess Snow-White and Rose-Red Rumpelstiltskin... The Elves and the Shoemaker Puss in Boots The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs The Dragon and His Grandmother The Seven-Headed Serpent The Giants and the Herd-Boy How the Dragon Was Tricked The Goblin and the Grocer The Slaying of the Tanuki The Troll's Daughter The Goblin Pony Herr Lazarus and the Draken The History of Dwarf Long Nose The Headless Dwarfs The Prince and the Dragon The Boy who found the Pots of Gold The Bad Boy and the Leprechaun The Leprechaun, or Fairy Shoemaker The Boggart The Sick-Bed Elves The Pixies The Brownie of Blednoch Elsa and the Ten Elves Piskey Fine! and Piskey Gay! The Fairy Wedding The Floating Prince How the Aristocrats Sailed Away (A Sequel) Huckleberry The Sprig of Holly... Hilda's Mermaid The Tell-Tale Goblin The Revenge of the Gnomes The Rain Elves The Dwarf with the Golden Beard The Great White Bear and the Trolls The King of the Buffaloes The Farmer and the Pixy...

Tales of Dragons, Giants, Elves, Gnomes, Trolls, Goblins, Phoenix, Unicorn and Other Fantastic Creatures

The Fantastical World of Magical Beasts

"Come Jane," said grandmamma one day, "'Tis time you learned to sew; At your age I could make a frock, And you should also know." But Jane cared little for such things; She liked to make a noise; She used to run about all day, And shout, and play with boys.

Careless Jane and Other Tales

Howard Pyle

Written by the siblings, Howard and Katharine Pyle, this book is a collection of short stories for children, oftentimes set in fantastical settings. It is uniquely divided into 12 chapters, each dedicated to every hour of the clock. Titles featured here include Bearskin, The Water of Life, and The Clever Student and The Master of Black Arts.

Four & twenty marvellous Tales being one for each hour of the day

The Wonder Clock

Once Upon a Time in Delaware

Book Excerptuel? Did you want to ask her anything else?""No," said Teddy, and his lip trembled.After that Hannah went down-stairs to her work again, and Teddy lay staring out of the window at the windy gray clouds that were sweeping across the April sky. He grew lonelier and lonelier and a lump rose in his throat; presently a big tear trickled down his cheek and dripped off his chin."Oh dear, oh dear!" said a little voice just back of the hill his knees made as he lay with them drawn up in bed; "what a hill to climb!"Teddy stopped crying and gazed wonderingly toward where the voice came from, and presently over the top of his knees appeared a brown peaked hood, a tiny withered face, a flapping brown cloak, and last of all two small feet in buckled shoes. It was a little old woman, so weazened and brown that she looked more like a dried leaf than anything else.She seated herself on Teddy's knees and gazed down at him solemnly, and she was so light that he felt her weight no more than if she had been a

The Counterpane Fairy

“As the Goose Flies” written and illustrated by Katherine Pyle. Ellen stood at the nursery window looking out at the gray sky and the wet, blowing branches of the trees. It had been raining and blowing all day. The roof pipes poured out steady waterfalls; the lilacs bent over, heavy with the rain. Up in the sky a bird was trying to beat its way home against the wind. But Ellen was not thinking of any of these things. She was thinking of the story that her grandmother had forgotten again. Ellen's grandmother was very old; so old that she often called Ellen by the names of her own little children; children who had grown up or died years and years ago. She was so old she could remember things that had happened seventy years before, but then she forgot a great many things, even things that had occurred only a few minutes before. While she stood there it occurred to her that she should put the bookcase in order before she went down to the sewing-room. That was just the thing to do on a rainy day. So, she sat down before the shelves and began pulling the books out. The nursery walls were covered with a flowered paper, and when Ellen had almost emptied the shelves she noticed that the paper back of them was of a different color from that of the rest of the room. It had not faded. The blue color between the vines looked soft and cloudlike, too, and almost as though it would melt away at a touch. Ellen put her hand back to feel it. Instead of touching a hard, cold wall as she had expected, her hand went right through between the vines as though there were nothing there. Ellen rose to her knees and put both hands across the shelf. She found she could draw the vines aside just as though they were real. She even thought she caught a glimpse of skies and trees between them. In haste she sprang to her feet and pushed the bookcase to one side so that she could squeeze in behind it. She caught hold of the wall-paper vines and drew them aside, and then she stepped right through the wall and into the world beyond. And so begins Ellen’s adventure into a mysterious and magical “World Beyond”. But, just what was in the world beyond? Well, you’ll just have to download and read this book to find out for yourself! ================ KEYWORDS/TAGS: As the Goose Flies, Katharine Pyle, Aladdin, animals, Anne, beautiful, cage, castle, cave, child, doorway, dragon, dwarf, Ellen, Fairy, Fatima, forest, frightened, gander, gate-keeper, genie, giant, girl, goat, gold, Goldenhair, Goose, grandmother, long hair, harp, heart, horn, huntsman, Jack, journey, king, lamp, locks, magic, magical, Middling, Mistress, mother, Mother, pleasant, porridge, prince, princess, queen, Queerbodies, rhyme, scullery, seven, shadows, shapes, silk, Sister, slaves, Snowdrop, soldiers, evil stepmother, story, Suddenly, terrible, Thumbie, treasures, trees, tremble, underground, vines, water, whispered, wicked, window, wings, wolf, wonder, wondercluff, wooden, world

AS THE GOOSE FLIES - A Magical Children's Adventure Story

Example in this ebook “I FEEL ashamed Matilda To see you such a shirk! I really think you’d run a mile To get away from work.” So spoke Matilda’s mother Reprovingly one day, But Mattie only shrugged and sulked And turned her face away. Soon mother left her then alone, The door was open wide. On tip-toes Mattie crossed the floor, And gaily ran outside. She left her room undusted, She left her bed unmade, Indeed she really was a shirk I’m very much afraid. With joy she gaily scampered Across the meadows wide, And chased the pretty butterflies That flew from side to side. And on and on she wandered Until she reached a wood, And there, deep in the shadows A little grey house stood. A dwarf was in the doorway, The door stood open wide, A lean and hungry-looking cat Was mewing just inside. The old dwarf grinned and beckoned, “Come in, come in,” cried he; “I need a little servant maid, And you will do for me.” “I have no wish to serve you,” Matilda quickly cried. But still the old dwarf beckoned her And made her step inside. He made her cook the dinner, He made her work all day. He watched her close, and left no chance For her to run away. To be continue in this ebook

Lazy Matilda and Other Tales (Illustrations)

Katharine Pyle

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