📚 Folklore

The stories a place tells about itself: tales, beliefs, and the collectors who first wrote them down.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject folklore in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Blue Fairy Book	Andrew Lang	1889	752
	Robin Hood	Howard Pyle	1883	724
	The Crimson Fairy Book	Andrew Lang	1903	510
	Kinder- und Hausmärchen	Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]	1812	208
	Japanese fairy tales	Yei Theodora Ozaki	2002	199
	Mother Goose in Prose	L. Frank Baum	1897	187
	Indian Fairy Tales	Joseph Jacobs	1892	73
	The Three Little Pigs	James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps	1962	61
	Women Who Run with the Wolves	Clarissa Pinkola Estés	1982	42
	Lille pige med svovlstikkerne	Hans Christian Andersen	1944	37
	Scary stories to tell in the dark	Alvin Schwartz	1981	32
	Beauty	Robin McKinley	1978	31
	Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears	Verna Aardema	1975	29
	Tikki Tikki Tembo	Arlene Mosel	1968	28
	Scary Stories 3	Alvin Schwartz	1991	28
	Myths and myth-makers	John Fiske	1873	24
	Mythology of the British Islands	Charles Squire	1905	24
	Myths & legends of Japan	F. Hadland Davis	1912	21
	Seven blind mice	Ed Young	1992	21
	Anansi the Spider	Gerald McDermott	1972	20
	The Clown of God	Tomie dePaola	1978	20
	The fairy-faith in Celtic countries	W. Y. Evans-Wentz	1911	19
	Mules and Men (P.S.)	Zora Neale Hurston	1935	18
	The Mitten	Alvin Tresselt	1964	18
	Tales of Ancient Egypt	Roger Lancelyn Green	1967	18
	The mitten	Jan Brett	1989	17
	Hawaiian mythology	Martha Warren Beckwith	1940	16
	Wiley and the Hairy Man	Molly Bang	1976	16
	Korean folk tales: imps, ghosts and fairies	Pang Im	1913	15
	Legend of the poinsettia	Tomie dePaola	1994	15

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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