Fairy Tales & Folklore Audiobooks

The Goose Girl

The Goose Girl is a German fairy tale in which a widowed queen sends her daugther to her bridegroom in a faraway land, only accompanied by a waiting maid and a magical talking horse. But the evil maid rebels and forces the princess into trading clothes with her and swearing secrecy, effectively taking her place until they arrive at a foreign palace. There, the princess is made into a common goose girl while the maid is wooed as a princess herself. Bound by secrecy, the real princess seems helpless, unless magical powers come at her aid. This lesser-known tale from the collection of the Brothers Grimm is read by Katie Haigh.

James Gardner (Author), Katie Haigh (Narrator)

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The Goose Girl: A Clean Retelling of The Goose Girl Fairy Tale Short Story

In this short story retelling of the classic fairy tale, The Goose Girl, Princess Evony is trapped. Cursed into silence by her scheming servant, what should have been the joyous start to her new life has turned into a nightmare. The man she should be marrying, Prince Maxence, is about to be married to her usurper, and Evony has been sentenced to tending geese, where her betrayer can ensure the truth never comes to light. To make matters worse, she can't seem to shake the enthusiastic goose boy into believing she has no intention of ever wedding him. Armed only with the love letters from her betrothed and the necklace her mother gave her before she died, Evony must find a way to escape her curse and save the prince-and his kingdom-from the wicked girl who has sought to ruin them all. Even without the full power of her words, can she convince Prince Maxence that she's really the girl he's written to all these years? Or will she be stuck tending cranky geese forever? This novelette retelling of The Goose Girl is a tale of clean, wholesome romance, magical mystery, and that ever-satisfying heroic happily-ever-after.

Brittany Fichter (Author), Kimberly Weldon (Narrator)

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The Goose-Girl

In The Goose Girl a princess's maid turns on her mistress while traveling and forces her to switch roles with her. The False princess then kills the princess's horse to keep it from talking and forces the real princess to herd geese with the boy Conrad. Conrad begins to notice strange things about the new goose-girl and informs the king. Will the false princess be discovered?

The Brothers Grimm (Author), George Newbern (Narrator)

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The Grand High Monster: A Monstacademy Mystery

The third and most mysterious Monstacademy Mystery yet! There’s a traitor at Monstacademy! When Trixie returns after being suspended, her best friend Gloria doesn’t seem herself. To make matters worse, the vampire is suddenly best friends with an exciting new monster. Is the new girl all that she seems, or are the Mean Ghouls up to no good? When the most important monster in the country pays Monstacademy a visit, the threat of their school closing hangs over Trixie and her friends like a black cloud. To make matters even worse, there’s a traitor in the ranks. Who is making things go wrong at just the right time? It's a mystery that Trixie and Colin will have to solve on their own, unless they can convince Gloria to help them save the day once again. Will a surprise visit from the Grand High Monster spell the end for Monstacademy?

Matt Beighton (Author), Ruth Bailes (Narrator)

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The Grave Thief

A twelve-year-old grave thief gets caught up in a royal heist in this compelling middle-grade fantasy in the vein of Kelley Armstrong’s A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying. Twelve-year-old Spade is a grave thief. With his father and brother, he digs up the recently deceased to steal jewels, the main form of trade in Wyndhail. Digging graves works for Spade—alone in the graveyard at night, no one notices his limp or calls him names. He’s headed for a lifetime of theft when his father comes up with the audacious plan to rob a grave in the Wyndhail castle cemetery. Spade and his brother get caught in a royal trap, and Spade must find the master of the Woegan: a deadly creature that is stalking the castle by night. Along the way, he meets Ember, the queen’s niece, and together they race to solve the mystery of the legendary Deepstones and their connection to the Woegan, the queen, a missing king, and the mysterious pebble Spade finds in the Wyndhail cemetery. This is a fantastic story of friendship, bravery, grief, and acceptance.

Dee Hahn (Author), Tim Campbell (Narrator)

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The Graveyard Book

Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their timely ghostly teachings-like the ability to Fade. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there are things like ghouls that aren't really one thing or the other. Music arrangement of Danse Macabre copyright 2008 by Béla Fleck and Ben Sollee, Fleck Music (BMI) admin. by Bug Music This chilling tale is Neil Gaiman's first full-length novel for middle-grade readers since the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Coraline. Like Coraline, this book is sure to enchant and surprise young readers as well as Neil Gaiman's legion of adult fans.

Neil Gaiman (Author), Neil Gaiman (Narrator)

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The Graveyard Book: Full Cast Production

A brand-new full cast audio edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold over one million copies. Special content in this edition includes the story behind The Graveyard Book, written and read by Neil Gaiman. The Graveyard Book is the winner of the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal (the only novel to ever win both awards), the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Young Adult Book, and Audiobook of the Year. This full cast audio edition is performed by Neil Gaiman, Derek Jacobi, Robert Madge, Clare Corbett, Miriam Margolyes, Andrew Scott, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Emilia Fox, Reece Shearsmith, Lenny Henry, and an ensemble cast. Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack, who has already killed Bod's family. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, The Graveyard Book by beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman is sure to enthrall listeners of all ages.

Neil Gaiman, Tim Dann (Author), Neil Gaiman, Various Performers (Narrator)

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The Gray Wolf and Other Fantasy Stories

George MacDonald was the great nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy, who influenced the work of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. This book collects some of his finest fairy stories, including "The Gray Wolf," "The Cruel Painter," "The Broken Swords," "The Wow O'Rivven, the Bell" "Uncle Cornelius, His Story," "The Butcher's Bills," and "Birth, Dreaming, Death." "I do not write," MacDonald once said, "for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five." Here then, for the childlike of all ages, is a collection of seven stories certain to delight both confirmed MacDonald readers and those about to meet him for the first time.

George MacDonald (Author), Thomas Whitworth, Tom Whitworth (Narrator)

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The Great Bear: The Misewa Saga, Book Two

In this second book in the Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series, Eli and Morgan journey once more to Misewa, travelling back in time. Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan has to make an important decision about her birth mother. They turn to the place where they know they can learn the most, and make the journey to Misewa to visit their animal friends. This time they travel back in time and meet a young fisher that might just be their lost friend. But they discover that the village is once again in peril, and they must dig deep within themselves to find the strength to protect their beloved friends. Can they carry this strength back home to face their own challenges?

David A. Robertson (Author), Brefny Caribou, Brefny Caribou-Curtin (Narrator)

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The Great Big Turnip

Grandma, Grandpa, and Anna planted turnips. One of the turnips becomes huge. It takes many friends to pull it from the ground.

Ellen Wettersten (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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The Green Door

Letitia Hopkins has always been curious about the peculiar green door in her Aunt Peggy's cheese room. But whenever she asks about it, she is always forbidden to open it or go through it. And the door is always locked. But one day, she finds a small black key on a green ribbon. And when she is left alone in the house, she cannot resist the temptation to try the door. Immediately Letitia finds herself in a strange, unfamiliar world full of wild animals, hostile natives, and a frontier life of hardship and hard work in the company of her pioneer ancestors. But how is she to find her way back to her own time? A splendid children's classic which still delights today's young generation.

Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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The Green Monkey

In order to provide English learners with extensive reading pleasure, it consists of jewels that span the East and West, from literary works of famous writers such as Aesop's fables, Andersen, Shakespeare, and picture brothers to traditional fairy tales from all over the world.

Andrew Lang (Author), Jonny Anderson (Narrator)

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