Favorite Fairy Tales Retold: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Favorite Fairy Tales Retold, credited to Julia Darrow Cowles, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Favorite Fairy Tales Retold by Julia Darrow Cowles. Read in English by James Pinegar; Libby Marie Lennon; BettyB; Esther Kamas; Greg Giordano; Mayah; Michelle Schroff; Jessica Allen; Kalynda In this volume, Ms. Cowles has collected her favourite fairy tales and retold them for children. All of the most famous authors are represented, such as Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. But instead of retelling all the standard tales, Ms. Cowles has chosen fairy tales that are not quite as famous, but contain an important message. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Favorite Fairy Tales Retold
• Author credits: Julia Darrow Cowles
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 2:35:05

Catalogue topics

• fairy tales
• USA
• Chicago
• myths
• tales
• 1915

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface — 1:48
2. 02 - The Three Lemons, from Laboulaye — 9:32
3. 03 - The Twelve Months, from Laboulaye — 8:55
4. 04 - Inger's Loaf, from Andersen — 9:49
5. 05 - Ole Shut-Eyes and his Dream Umbrella, from Andersen — 7:48
6. 06 - The Nightingale, from Andersen — 6:23
7. 07 - The Six Swans, from Grimm — 5:59
8. 08 - The Enchanted Mead, a Korean Folk Tale — 9:34
9. 09 - The White Cat, from D'Aulnoy — 7:52
10. 10 - The Miller's Daughter, a Slav Folk Tale — 7:13
11. 11 - The Beauty and the Beast, from Villeneuve — 11:40
12. 12 - The Tortoise-Shell Cat, from Grimm — 8:58
13. 13 - The Healing Water, from Grimm — 8:53
14. 14 - The Lad who Wondered, from Dasent — 7:02
15. 15 - The Lad who Visited North Wind, from Dasent — 7:29
16. 16 - The Goose Girl, from Grimm — 7:42
17. 17 - The Spring in the Valley, an Irish Folk Tale — 6:41
18. 18 - The Magic Snuff Box, a Folk Tale — 7:21
19. 19 - Old Mother Holle, from Grimm — 6:16
20. 20 - Eric No-Luck, a Russian Folk Tale — 8:10

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