Archived Stories
Two Friends and One Horse
An Israeli Tale rewritten by Yoel Perez copyright 2001 and adapted by Laura Simms
The North Wind & the Sun
A Portrait of Peace
Author Unknown
The Legend of Saint Valentine
One of our favorite versions of the legend of this saint.
Darby the Tailor - A Story of Luck and Leprechauns
The Tiger and the Frog
A Tale From Tibet
Old and Far
A Jeffco Spellbinder, Gordon Benesh, was invited to go with his third grade class to the Denver Planetarium. Gordon waxed poetic.
The Emperor's Flowers
A Chinese Folktale
Why Butterflies Can't Fly Straight
Retold from a Tewa Indian Legend
The Three Laughs
Jewish (Hasidic - Poland)
Why the Leaves Have Many Colors in Autumn
A Wyandot (Huron) Legend
How Night Came to the World
A Brazilian Folktale
Anansi Goes Fishing
An African Folk Tale
The Legend of Chrstmas Tinsel
This story is a retelling of an old German legend about the origin of Christmas tree tinsel, based on a version by Shirley Climo titled Cobweb Christmas
It's In Your Hands
A Tale for Earth Day
Baucis and Philemon: An Ancient Love Story
This story was included in Ovid's moralizing fable (Metamorphoses VIII)
The Cracked Pot
An Indian Folktale
Macaroon
An adaption of Macaroon by Julia Cunningham for Spellbinders by G. K. Dietsch
Not Our Problem
Adapted from "Peace Tales" by Margaret Read MacDonald
The Long Winter
An Inuit/Canadian Folktale
Anansi and His Sons
As retold by Eshu Bumps
Earth Shake Woman
Yu'pik (a Native Alaskan tribe) myth about the orgin of earthquakes
Baba Yaga
A folktale from Russia
Buzzard and Wren Have a Race
A Trickster Tale with Roots in America, the West Indies and Africa
Why the Evergreen Trees Keep Their Leaves in Winter
The Peddler of Swaffham
Maybe I'm a Spellbinder
Lev Ropes is the Grandbear of Jeffco Spellbinders
The Fairy's New Year Gift
by Emilie Poulsson (1853 to 1939)
How the Milky Way Began
as retold by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss in Children Tell Stories. Katonah, New York: Richard C. Owen Publishers, Inc., 1990
Going to Grandma's House
A Variation of a Story Told by Heather Lyle At the Koebel Library Storytelling Festival October 2003
Arachne
A Greek Myth
The Legend of the Bluebonnet
A Comanche Legend
Grandmother Cedar Tree
Native American Story from the Sammish people of the Northwest
The Foolish Lion and the Clever Rabbit
A Panchatantra Story from India
Brer Rabbit Earns a Dallar-A-Minute
An African American Folktale as Retold by S.E. Schlosser
Gingerbread Man
Marilyn A. Kinsella
The Wave
The Woman and the Stone
Molly's Pilgrim
by Barbara Cohen as adapted by Germaine Dietsch
The Magic Pumpkins
An Ukrainian Folktale
The Six Swans
A Grimm’s Fairy Tale
The Sticky Sticky Pine
How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water
A Tale from Ukraine
How Indian Corn Came Into the World
Excerpts from an Ojibwa Legend told to Henry R. Schoolcraft
Sedge Hats for Jizo
A tale by Fanny Hagin Mayer in her book Ancient Tales in Modern Japan.
Truth & Story
Retold by Germaine Dietsch, with permission of Bobby Norfolk, from his book, The Moral of the Story
Tanabata
A Japanese Folktale
Clever Manka
A Tale From the Czech Republic,as retold by Parker Fillmore in The Shepherd's Nosegay (1920)
The Nutcracker Drawf
Count Franz Pocci founded the Munich Marionette Theatre in Munich, Bavaria, Germany in 1855. He was a dramatist, poet, painter and composer, and was responsible for drawing illustrations for collections of fairy tales by Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.
The Tiger's Whisker
An adaptation of an old Asian folktale that has many versions as retold by Germaine Dietsch
Why the Leaves Have Many Colors in Autumn
A Wyandot (Huron) Legend
Rainbow Crow - A Tale of Snow from the Lenni Lenape Tribe
As retold by S. E. Schlosser
The Rose and the Butterfly
an Aesop fable
The Proud Little Apple Blossom
by Hans Christian Andersen (adapted)
Senor Coyote - The Judge
A Tale from Mexico
The Frog Princess
The Red Fish
A Tale from Turkey, Adapted by Laura Simms copyright 2001
The Fisherman and His Wife
A tale from the Brothers Grimm
How People Learned to Fish
A Native American Folktale
The Red Silk Handkerchief
From When The Lights Go Out: Twenty Scary Tales To Tell by Margaret Read MacDDonald
The Twelve Months
A Slav Fairy Tale as retold by Alexander Chodsvko
Grandmothers
Germaine Kresser Dietsch
Brer Rabbit Falls Down the Well
An African-American Folktale as Retold by S. E. Schlosser
The Spirit of the Corn
An Iroquois Legend
The Leprechaun's Gold
This classic tale goes by many names including The Leprechaun and the Red Scarf
The Strange Visitor
From When The Lights Go Out: Twenty Scary Tales To Tell by Margaret Read MacDDonald
Spring Defeats Winter
A tale from the Seneca Tribe of the Northeast Woodlands
Earth Shake
a parable by Aaron Shepard
Strawberries
A Cherokee Legend of Love
Any Day Can Be Thanksgiving
Adapted from Thanksgiving at the Tappletons’ by Eileen Spinelli
The Two Travelers and The Farmer
A Tale From North America
How Anansi Became Owner of All the Stories
A tale from Africa
Old Grandfather and the Half Blanket
The Monster That Grew Small
Aaron McEmrys
The Awongalema Tree
Thanks to drummer Stephen Sharpe and Laurie Loeb for passing on this African folktale
Why Dogs Chase Cats
A Virginia Folktale as retold by S.E. Schlosser on http://americanfolklore.net
New Attitude Brings New Satisfaction
A Jewish Folktale
Audio Stories
Grandbear's Song
by Lev Ropes
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The Giant Who Played Pickup Sticks
by Mary Ann Janson
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Video Stories
In Charge of Celebrations
by Sue Parker
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Kim Stacey
by Kim Stacey
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Wake up, Jake!
by Tommy Paxton
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Stories
by Sue Parker
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