It took me forever to find this info in the dark corners of the Interweb, so on the off-chance any other person in the history of ever is interested in the same material (unlikely, but still), here it is:
Australian Stories in Five Volumes by L. & G. Adams (1979) - William Collins Pty Ltd, Sydney
Volume I: How Koala Lost His Tail and Other Australian Stories
* How Koala Lost His Tail
* How Echidna Got His Quills
* How Emu Lost His Wings
* How Water-Rat Found Fire
Volume II: Why Kookaburra Laughs at Dawn and Other Australian Stories
* Why Kookaburra Laughs at Dawn
* The Whirlwind and the Frogs
* The Koala Who Stole the Water
* Mopoke and the Moon
Volume III: Wowie the River Monster and Other Australian Stories
* Wowie the River Monster
* The Black Swans
* Molok the Thirsty Frog
* Keelie the Cuckoo
Volume IV: Old Man Fire and Other Australian Stories
* Old Man Fire
* How the Rainbow Was Made
* The Spirit in the Stream
* The Butterflies of Spring
Volume V: The Tale of the Kangaroo and Other Australian Stories
* The Tale of the Kangaroo
* The Secret of the Cockatoo
* The Tale of the Platypus
* The Tale of the Wombat
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
Muller's WORLD FAIRY TALE COLLECTIONS Series: An Alternative to the Oxford Myths & Legends Series - Muller's Folk & Fairy Tales
The Oxford Myths & Legends series from the 1960s is (rightfully and deservedly) recommended by the authors of the Well-Trained Mind 
(more on OM&L in a future post), but if you need an alternate or addition to any of those books, there's another series I've recently come across, also from the 1960s, that seems like it was a fairly equivalent competitor to what Oxford/Walck were doing: Frederick Muller's World Fairy Tales Collections series of books, sometimes called Muller's Folk and Fairy Tales series. Some were published in the United States by Follett, out of the Midwest. The Muller books don't have color illustrations like the Oxford, it's all black-and-white line drawings, usually by Harry and/or Ilse Toothill, but the text is good stuff. The dustjackets are usually illustrated in the style of the region in question, almost always by someone other than Toothill.
Update, Oct. 16, 2011: Was just thrilled to find this recommendation of the Muller fairy tale series in Dorothy Butler's Five to Eight, London: Bodley Head, 1986. She writes, "A series published some years ago by Muller entitled 'Folk and Fairy Tales' provides a rich harvest of stories from almost every country in the world, suitable in language and level for children of seven and over. Sadly out of print, it is still well represented in good libraries. (Turkish Fairy Tales is at this moment providing visiting grandchildren with a source of good stories in my house, and I am impressed all over again with the standard of both content and presentation in these fine collections.)"
Update, April 9, 2012: Laid hands on my very own copy of a 1973 printing of Turkish Fairy Tales and added several more titles from the series, as listed on the back flap of the book.
(more on OM&L in a future post), but if you need an alternate or addition to any of those books, there's another series I've recently come across, also from the 1960s, that seems like it was a fairly equivalent competitor to what Oxford/Walck were doing: Frederick Muller's World Fairy Tales Collections series of books, sometimes called Muller's Folk and Fairy Tales series. Some were published in the United States by Follett, out of the Midwest. The Muller books don't have color illustrations like the Oxford, it's all black-and-white line drawings, usually by Harry and/or Ilse Toothill, but the text is good stuff. The dustjackets are usually illustrated in the style of the region in question, almost always by someone other than Toothill.Update, Oct. 16, 2011: Was just thrilled to find this recommendation of the Muller fairy tale series in Dorothy Butler's Five to Eight, London: Bodley Head, 1986. She writes, "A series published some years ago by Muller entitled 'Folk and Fairy Tales' provides a rich harvest of stories from almost every country in the world, suitable in language and level for children of seven and over. Sadly out of print, it is still well represented in good libraries. (Turkish Fairy Tales is at this moment providing visiting grandchildren with a source of good stories in my house, and I am impressed all over again with the standard of both content and presentation in these fine collections.)"
Update, April 9, 2012: Laid hands on my very own copy of a 1973 printing of Turkish Fairy Tales and added several more titles from the series, as listed on the back flap of the book.
WORLD FAIRY TALE COLLECTIONS
Follett Publishing Company * Frederick Muller Ltd.
Follett Publishing Company * Frederick Muller Ltd.
- African Fairy Tales - Kathleen Arnott
- Arabian Fairy Tales - Amina Shah
- Burmese and Thai Fairy Tales - Eleanor Brockett
- Celtic Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs, ed. by Lucia Turnbull
- Chinese Fairy Tales - Leslie Bonnet
- Danish Fairy Tales - Inge Hack
- English Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
- Fairy Tales from the Barbary Coast - Peter Lum
- Fairy Tales from Bohemia - Maurice and Pamela Michael
- Fairy Tales from the Pacific Islands - A.W. Reed
- Fairy Tales from Sweden - Irma Kaplan - Carol Calder
- Fairy Tales from Switzerland - Roger Duvoisin - originally published as The Three Sneezes and Other Swiss Tales
- Folk Tales from North America - Peter Lum
- French Fairy Tales - Roland Gant - Patricia Morriss
- German Fairy Tales - Maurice and Pamela Michael
- Greek Fairy Tales - Barbara Ker Wilson
- Heroes of Kalevala - Irma Kaplan
- Indian Fairy Tales - Lucia Turnbull
- Indonesian Fairy Tales - Adele de Leeuw
- Italian Fairy Tales - Peter Lum
- Japanese Fairy Tales - Juliet Piggott
- Mexican Fairy Tales - Juliet Piggott
- Norwegian Fairy Tales - Gert Stringberg
- Persian Fairy Tales - Eleanor Brockett
- Polish Fairy Tales - Zoë Zajdler
- Portuguese Fairy Tales - Maurice and Pamela Michael
- Russian Fairy Tales - E. M. Almedingen
- The Sea-King's Gift and Other Tales from Finland - Zacharius Topelius, retold by Irma Kaplan
- South American Fairy Tales - John Meehan
- Spanish Fairy Tales - John Marks
- Turkish Fairy Tales - Eleanor Brockett
Plus:
- Famous Fairy Tales of the World (a selection from the series) - Juliet Piggott
- Myth and Moonshine (a collection of magical tales) - Juliet Piggott
- Old European Fairy Tales - Irma Kaplan
Originally published Aug. 18, 2011.
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