Fairy Collection

Ladybird presents Ladybird Tales, a bright, richly adventurous audio storytelling experience. Reimagining classic fairy tales in a magical audiobook collection. Perfect for entertaining the little ones aged five and up. Featuring immersive sound design and beautifully composed music to whisk the whole family away on a magical adventure.

Taking shelter from a storm, Rose accidentally strays into a deserted fairy realm and finds herself trapped there with only a mysterious talking beast for company. Although initially reluctant to befriend her strange companion, Rose quickly finds herself growing closer to him. She names him Thorn, and as the castle blossoms into a place of beauty, so too does their friendship. But something else lurks within the walls, a dark force that will stop at nothing to be free once more....

Publiés en 1697, les Contes de Charles Perrault sont un recueil de récits merveilleux qui ont marqué la littérature pour enfants.

The Aeneid is one of the greatest works in all of world literature. It is filled with mythology, history, and archaeology; it is infused with patriotism, religious feeling, and pathos; it is rich in adventure and romance. As the story begins, a storm shipwrecks Aeneas and his Trojan followers near Carthage in North Africa. There, Aeneas falls in love with Dido, queen of Carthage. But the gods order him to leave for Italy. In despair, Dido commits suicide. Upon finally reaching Italy, Aeneas goes down into the lower world and learns about his future descendants, the Romans.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 13) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: Under the Willow Tree / In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea / What One Can Invent / The Wicked Prince / The Wild Swans / The Will-o-the-Wisp in the Town, Says the Wild Woman / The Story of the Wind / The Windmill / The Story of the Year.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 3) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: Delaying is not Forgetting / The Drop of Water / The Dryad / Jack the Dullard / The Dumb Book / The Elf of the Rose / The Elfin Hill / The Emperor's New Suit / The Fir Tree / The Flax.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 8) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: The Old Street Lamp / Ole-Luk-Oie, the Dream God / Ole the Tower-keeper / Our Aunt / The Garden of Paradise / The Pea Blossom / The Pen and the Inkstand / The Philosopher's Stone / The Phoenix Bird / The Portuguese Duck.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 9) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: The Porter's Son / Poultry Meg's Family / The Princess and the Pea / The Psyche / The Puppet-show Man / The Races / The Red Shoes / Everything in the Right Place / A Rose from Homer's Grave / The Snail and the Rose-tree.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 1) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: A Story / By the Almshouse Window / The Angel / Anne Lisbeth / The Conceited Apple-branch / Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind / The Beetle Who Went on His Travels / The Bell / The Bell-deep / The Bird of Popular Song.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 4) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: The Flying Trunk / The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship / The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf / The Goblin and the Huckster / The Golden Treasure / The Galoshes of Fortune / She was Good for Nothing / Grandmother / A Great Grief / The Happy Family.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 12) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: In a Thousand Years / The Brave Tin Soldier / The Tinder-box / The Toad / The Top and Ball / The Travelling Companion / Two Brothers / Two Maidens / The Ugly Duckling.

Are bedtime battles becoming a nightly struggle? Dive into the magical world of Bedtime Stories For Boys, an enchanting bedtime story collection curated by bestselling author Ella Swan.

Want to have your little ones drifting into dreamland, immersed in captivating tales of animals, astronauts, and magical adventures? Then Bedtime Stories for Kids is just what you need!

"What is your favorite story?" is the question children across the country often ask professional storyteller Pleasant DeSpain. As he attempts to answer, his list grows longer and longer, until he confesses he likes them all. An untiring researcher of oral traditions, DeSpain is known for his concise versions of world folktales specifically crafted for retelling. This new, digital recording of 10 stories is excerpted from DeSpain's 22 Splendid Tales to Tell from Around the World, Volume One.

Nationally acclaimed storyteller J.J. Reneaux grew up Cajun for true, surrounded by the stories, music, food, and culture of rural communities in southeastern Texas and southern Louisiana. A traditional storyteller who collects by word-of-mouth, Reneaux has developed her repertoire over years of collecting: on front porches, school playgrounds, and her beloved fishing trips, as well as at nursing homes, airports, and at neighborhood fais-dodos.

40 of Aesop's tales, specially adapted for young children. Read by Richard Briers, Jane Horrocks, Jonathan Pryce, Alison Steadman, Richard E. Grant, Lindsay Duncan and Brenda Blethyn.

"Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales continue to exert the same pull over the imagination and emotions as they did when he first read them to his children in the 1880s. Written with inspired poetic intensity and sudden flowerings of the matchless wit for which he is so well remembered, the stories combine the wisdom of parables with the impact of drama."

A dazzling collection of magical tales by the world's best-loved storyteller. Perfect for children aged five and up! There are tales of the most powerful enchanters and conjurers in Fairyland in this bumper collection of short stories by Enid Blyton. But their spells don't always go smoothly! From witches who will cast an enchantment at the drop of a pointy hat to cheeky imps in search of spells to make some mischief, there's bound to be trouble!

"What is your favorite story?" is the question children across the country often ask professional storyteller Pleasant DeSpain. As he attempts to answer, his list grows longer and longer, until he confesses he likes them all. An untiring researcher of oral traditions, DeSpain is known for his concise versions of world folktales specifically crafted for retelling.

Some folk stories endure generation after generation because, although they are not literal, they resound in truths on a human scale. Folktales remind us of wisdom so elemental it is often lost in the rush of everyday life, so that "sometimes common sense makes no sense at all." The six wonder tales on this audiobook are gems of the genre. They have a "long ago and far away" quality.