Tales for Children

Classic American Children’s Authors

Joel Chandler Harris (1845 –1908)
The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus Richard Chase (Compiler)
2002 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published 1955

Beatrix Potter (1866 –1943)
The Complete Tales (including Peter Rabbit) 2006 by Warne (first published June 1986)

Thornton Waldo Burgess (1874 –1965) wrote approximately 172 books mostly involving animals


Tales for Children

Hilarie Belloc
The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts (1896)
More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)

Robert Stevenson
Child's Garden of Verses (1913)

William Bennett
The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories (1993
Moral Compass: Stories for a Life's Journey (1995)

Classic Tales Retold for Children
Tales from Shakespeare (Children's Classics) by Charles Lamb, 1807
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children by E. Nesbit (1907)

Enter Three Witches Caroline B. Cooney (2007)

William F. Russell (Editor)
Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children: Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, Hawthorne, and More
1992 by Crown Publishing Group (first published 1984)

Rudolph Erich Raspe (1737 - 1794)
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1785)

Bram Stoker
Under the Sunset (1881), comprising eight fairy tales for children.

Oscar Wilde Fairy Tales
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888, fairy tales)
A House of Pomegranates (1891, fairy tales)
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891) including The Canterville Ghost

Herminie Templeton Kavanagh
•Darby O'Gill and the Good People (1903)
•The Ashes of Old Wishes & Other Darby O'Gill Tales (1926)

Reprinted Collections
Darby O'Gill and the Crocks of Gold: And Other Irish Tales (2003)
The Adventures of Darby O'Gill and Other Tales of Supernatural Ireland (2009)