Fables, Fairy Tales & Myths

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Read by Eddie Redmayne

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 40 mins)
• By J.K. Rowling, Newt Scamander
• Narrated By Eddie Redmayne

A set textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since publication, Newt Scamander's masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable introduction to the magical beasts of the wizarding world. Scamander's years of travel and research have created a tome of unparalleled importance.

The Dark Prophecy: The Trials of Apollo, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Rick Riordan
• Narrated By Robbie Daymond
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The god Apollo, cast down to earth and trapped in the form of a gawky teenage boy as punishment, must set off on the second of his harrowing (and hilarious) trials. He and his companions seek the ancient oracles - restoring them is the only way for Apollo to reclaim his place on Mount Olympus - but this is easier said than done. Somewhere in the American Midwest is a haunted cave that may hold answers for Apollo in his quest to become a god again...if it doesn't kill him or drive him insane first.

Fireworks in Fairyland Story Collection

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Enid Blyton
• Narrated By Nicky Diss, Thomas Judd
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

A magical selection of stories by one of the world's best-loved children's authors, Enid Blyton. This collections of over 50 stories brings together three of Enid Blyton's earliest and most imaginative story collections - The Book of Fairies (1924), The Book of Brownies (1926) and The Book of Pixies (1989) and shows Blyton at her most imaginative and playful.

The Little Prince

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs)
• By Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Richard Howard - translator
• Narrated By Humphrey Bower

A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. "Please," asks the stranger, "draw me a sheep." And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out pencil and paper... And thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed forever the world for its readers.

The Battle of the Labyrinth: Percy Jackson, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Rick Riordan
• Narrated By Jesse Bernstein

Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.

Peter and the Wolf

• UNABRIDGED (25 mins)
• By Sergei Prokofiev
• Narrated By Jim Dale

Generations of children have been charmed by this enchanting work, and Brilliance Audio is proud to introduce its own version with multi-Grammy Award-winner Jim Dale as narrator. To delight the millions of Jim’s fans, his reading of Peter and the Wolf will include unforgettable vocal characterizations of the various animals, young Peter, and Peter’s grumpy old grandfather. The music of Peter and the Wolf, including some of the best-known classical melodies, is superbly performed by the award-winning Seattle Symphony, led by music director Gerard Schwarz.

The Green Ember

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 55 mins)
• By S. D. Smith
• Narrated By Joel Clarkson
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures. They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world.

Aladdin and Other Stories

• ABRIDGED (1 hr and 7 mins)
• By BBC Audiobooks
• Narrated By full cast

With music, sound effects, and all the expertise of the BBC, these traditional nursery rhymes are brought magically to life. Includes "Aladdin", "Puss in Boots", "Cinderella", and "Dick Whittington".

A Twist of Tales

• UNABRIDGED (21 mins)
• By Julia Donaldson
• Narrated By Helen Keeley

In this fantastical collection of stories, a king hides a terrible secret under his crown, a marvellous dream inspires an epic journey and a clever girl outwits the king! This collection of three lovely tales from Julia Donaldson are an ideal first step for children embarking on a lifelong journey through the wonders of stories.

Hotel Valhalla Guide to the Norse Worlds: Your Introduction to Deities, Mythical Beings & Fantastic Creatures

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 46 mins)
• By Rick Riordan
• Narrated By Kieran Culkin
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Discover the lore behind the fantastical world of Magnus Chase. Helgi - the hotel manager - created this book for each hotel guest so that he wouldn't have to answer so many questions at the front desk. It has short entries about the deities, mythical beings, and fantastic creatures from the nine Norse worlds and also contains bonus material including interviews, newspaper articles, short stories and more. The tone is humorous, complementing Rick's series.

The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Christopher Healy, Todd Harris
• Narrated By Bronson Pinchot

Prince Liam. Prince Frederic. Prince Duncan. Prince Gustav. You've never heard of them, have you? These are the princes who saved Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel, respectively, and yet, thanks to those lousy bards who wrote the tales, you likely know them only as Prince Charming. But all of this is about to change.

The Scottish Fairy Book: Collection

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Elizabeth W Grierson
• Narrated By Steven Cree

A collection of 28 Scottish fairy tales, perfect for children (and adults) of all ages. Herein you will find what may be called Celtic stories, which were handed down for centuries by word of mouth by professional storytellers who went about from clachan to clachan in the Highlands and Islands, earning a night's shelter by giving a night's entertainment.

The Unicorn: Fairy Realm, Book 6

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 45 mins)
• By Emily Rodda
• Narrated By Lucy Bell

The Fairy Realm and the human world are both in great danger! The wicked Outland creatures are planning an attack, and Jessie can only save one of her two worlds. So she must make a terrible decision - unless she can convince the secretive and powerful unicorns to help her.... The Unicorn is Jessie's sixth adventure in Emily Rodda's magical Fairy Realm series.

Moon Rising: Wings of Fire, Book 6

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Tui T. Sutherland
• Narrated By Shannon McManus
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The war between the tribes is finally over, and now the dragonets of the prophecy have a plan for lasting peace: Jade Mountain Academy, a school that will gather dragonets from all the tribes and teach them to live together, perhaps even as friends. Moonwatcher isn't sure how she feels about school, however.

Legend of the Sword

• UNABRIDGED (36 mins)
• By Jeff Child
• Narrated By John H Fehskens

Grandma tells her grandchildren about Valerius, a brave young man who faced numerous hordes of filthy creatures and fights for his life. The village of Soriah has a dark past, and fate has caught up with them. The only person standing between an endless life of doom and wandering of undead zombies and skeletons is a foreign farmer's boy, who discovers that he has nothing to lose and anything to gain by starting an epic adventure in search of a special sword.

Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Rick Riordan
• Narrated By Jesse Bernstein
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In this gripping follow-up to Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods, demigod Percy Jackson tells the stories of twelve of the original Greek heroes in all their gory, bloodthirsty glory. Want to know who cut off Medusa's head? Which hero was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus, the winged horse? Percy has all the answers....

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

• UNABRIDGED (10 mins)
• By Caralyn Buehner, Mark Buehner
• Narrated By Cassandra Morris

Some stories become favored childhood classics with good reason, such as the tale of Goldilocks. Here, in an abundantly funny retelling, the time honored drama unfolds. This outrageously frilly, jump-roping Goldilocks skips through the bears' house, reciting saucy rhymes as she goes.

Another outstanding collaboration from Caralyn and Mark Buehner, Goldilocks and the Three Bears is perfect for sharing with children, adults, and fairy-tale collectors alike.

The Little Prince: Rhyming Books for Children

• UNABRIDGED (14 mins)
• By Liz Doolittle
• Narrated By Rebecca Meszaros

The Little Prince encourages us to view things from a different way. It teaches us how to look beneath the top layer of a situation and see beyond it. The Little Prince learns how to see things with his heart and to feel things with his emotions, rather than simply with his eyes and head.

Just So Stories

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Rudyard Kipling
• Narrated By Johanna Ward

Drawn from the enchanting tales told to Kipling as a child in India, Just So Stories reveals the magic of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people. Cats and dogs, kangaroos and tortoises, hedgehogs and jaguars, whales and leopards, and many others are brought to life in an exotic Eastern landscape of "high and far times ago". Children will discover how the leopard got his spots, the elephant his trunk, and the camel his hump through clever tales that subtly hint at the pitfalls of arrogance and the importance of creativity.

The Brightest Night: Wings of Fire, Book 5

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Tui T. Sutherland
• Narrated By Shannon McManus
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The Dragonets struggle to fulfill the prophecy and - somehow - end the war in this thrilling new installment of the best-selling Wings of Fire series! It all comes down to this: The Dragonets of Destiny must finally bring the epic war to an end, reconcile the seven tribes, choose the next queen of Pyrrhia, and make it out alive.

Stories for All the Family

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Mike Bennett, Tim Firth, Simon Firth, and others
• Narrated By Rik Mayall, Bobby Davro, Anita Harris, and others

Delight in a collection of tales for all the family, voiced by our favourite celebrities....

Bedtime Stories with Phillip Schofield

• ORIGINAL (53 mins)
• By Robert Howes, Martha Ladly, Tim Firth
• Narrated By Phillip Schofield

Enjoy three fantastic tales that the little ones are sure to adore. The collection includes Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk and Safety First at Home and Play. Phillip Schofield is an English television personality who is most recognised for presenting the ITV lifestyle programme This Morning, which he has cohosted since 2002.

Legend of the Sword

• UNABRIDGED (36 mins)
• By Jeff Child
• Narrated By John H Fehskens

Grandma tells her grandchildren about Valerius, a brave young man who faced numerous hordes of filthy creatures and fights for his life. The village of Soriah has a dark past, and fate has caught up with them. The only person standing between an endless life of doom and wandering of undead zombies and skeletons is a foreign farmer's boy, who discovers that he has nothing to lose and anything to gain by starting an epic adventure in search of a special sword.

Little Red...

• UNABRIDGED (20 mins)
• By Kathleen McKay
• Narrated By Kathleen McKay

Little Red... is an adaptation of the Grimm's folk tale Little Red Riding Hood from the vivid imagination of Kathleen McKay. This centuries-old tale is brought to life with vocal dexterity, humor, and imagination with a freshness that will delight and entertain the whole family. In this adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood Kathleen fills in things we never knew about: Little Red, the wolf, and granny.

Mermaid & King

• UNABRIDGED (3 mins)
• By Asami Rika
• Narrated By Tiffany Marz

The fairy king learns the hard way that you should never build your house on the sand!

The Bell

• UNABRIDGED (22 mins)
• By Hans Christian Andersen
• Narrated By Carol Phillips

The Bell (1845): "In the narrow streets of a large town people often heard in the evening, when the sun was setting, and his last rays gave a golden tint to the chimney-pots, a strange noise which resembled the sound of a church bell; it only lasted an instant, for it was lost in the continual roar of traffic and hum of voices which rose from the town. 'The evening bell is ringing,' people used to say; 'the sun is setting!'

Rise of the Jumbies

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Tracey Baptiste
• Narrated By Robin Miles

Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked jumbie Severine months ago, but things haven't exactly gone back to normal in her Caribbean island home. Everyone knows Corinne is half-jumbie, and many of her neighbors treat her with mistrust. When local children begin to go missing, snatched from the beach and vanishing into wells, suspicious eyes turn to Corinne. To rescue the missing children and clear her own name, Corinne goes deep into the ocean to find Mama D'Leau, the dangerous jumbie who rules the sea.

Sunday Drive with Chester: Beantown Pals - The Adventures of Bucky and Betty, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (35 mins)
• By Mr. Thomas Joseph Hayes
• Narrated By Tom Hayes, Tammy Pooler

Beantown Pals, Bucky and Betty, descendants of Jack in the Beanstalk's beans, go on another hysterical adventure. Betty surprises Bucky with her newest hobby - foster-caring Chester the Chimpanzee. Join them as a Sunday-drive date turns into a comedy nightmare as they attempt to return Chester to the Beantown zoo. Comedians Tammy Pooler and Tom Hayes join their improvisational talents to create another outrageously funny fairy-tale fantasy.

The Lonely Cog

• UNABRIDGED (1 min)
• By Mr Andrzej Chirstopher Marczewski
• Narrated By Andrzej Marczewski

The Little Pink Cog is scared and lonely as the machine begins to slow down for the first time. Will the other cogs be able to comfort her and make her smile? The Lonely Cog is a story about the importance of belonging, written for children and grown-ups alike, by Gamification author Andrzej Marczewski.

The Snow Queen

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 35 mins)
• By Hans Christian Andersen
• Narrated By Carol Phillips

"The Snow Queen" (Danish: Snedronningen) is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published on 21 December 1844 in "New Fairy Tales". The story centres on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kai. The story is one of Andersen's longest and most highly acclaimed stories.

The Leap Frog

• UNABRIDGED (12 mins)
• By Hans Christian Andersen
• Narrated By Carol Phillips

A Flea, a Grasshopper, and a Leap-frog once wanted to see which could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and everybody else besides who chose to come to see the festival. Three famous jumpers were they, as everyone would say, when they all met together in the room.

The River Bank: A Sequel to Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows'

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Kij Johnson
• Narrated By Kij Johnson

In this delightful dive into the bygone world of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows staunch Mole, sociable Water Rat, severe Badger, and troublesome and ebullient Toad of Toad Hall are joined by a young mole lady, Beryl, and her dear friend, Rabbit. Kij Johnson's stories have won the Sturgeon, World Fantasy and Nebula awards. She has taught writing and has worked at Dark Horse, Microsoft and Real Networks.

The Shoes of Fortune

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 44 mins)
• By Hans Christian Andersen
• Narrated By Carol Phillips

Every author has some peculiarity in his descriptions or in his style of writing. Those who do not like him, magnify it, shrug up their shoulders, and exclaim: there he is again! I, for my part, know very well how I can bring about this movement and this exclamation. It would happen immediately if I were to begin here, as I intended to do, with: "Rome has its Corso, Naples its Toledo" - "Ah! that Andersen; there he is again!" they would cry; yet I must, to please my fancy, continue quite quietly, and add: "But Copenhagen has its East Street."

The Happy Family

• UNABRIDGED (16 mins)
• By Hans Christian Andersen
• Narrated By Carol Phillips

"The Happy Family" (1848): "The largest green leaf in this country is certainly the burdock-leaf. If you hold it in front of you, it is large enough for an apron; and if you hold it over your head, it is almost as good as an umbrella, it is so wonderfully large. A burdock never grows alone; where it grows, there are many more, and it is a splendid sight; and all this splendor is good for snails.

The Swineherd

• UNABRIDGED (18 mins)
• By Hans Christian Andersen
• Narrated By Carol Phillips

"The Swineherd" (Danish: Svinedrengen) is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a prince who disguises himself as a swineherd to woo an arrogant princess. The tale was first published on December 20, 1841 by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark in "Fairy Tales Told for Children". The tale appears to be the original of Andersen's though similar tales are known.

The Fir Tree

• UNABRIDGED (31 mins)
• By Hans Christian Andersen
• Narrated By Carol Phillips

"The Fir-Tree" (Danish: Grantræet) is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). The tale is about a fir tree so anxious to grow up, so anxious for greater things, that he cannot appreciate living in the moment. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 with "The Snow Queen", in Copenhagen, Denmark, by C.A. Reitzel. One scholar (Andersen biographer Jackie Wullschlager) indicates that "The Fir-Tree" was the first of Andersen's fairy tales to express a deep pessimism.

The Real Princess

• UNABRIDGED (11 mins)
• By Hans Christian Andersen
• Narrated By Carol Phillips

There was once a Prince who wished to marry a Princess; but then she must be a real Princess. He travelled all over the world in hopes of finding such a lady; but there was always something wrong. Princesses he found in plenty; but whether they were real Princesses it was impossible for him to decide, for now one thing, now another, seemed to him not quite right about the ladies. At last he returned to his palace quite cast down, because he wished so much to have a real Princess for his wife.

I'm a Little Teapot

• UNABRIDGED (15 mins)
• By GOYOkids
• Narrated By Gaby Brown

This story takes you on an inventive ride with four creative little teapots; exploring themes of resilience, wonder, strength, and pride. You'll recognize the first little teapot as the traditional rhyme, then come with us to hear about three new twists on the original rhyme.

The Happy Prince and The Steadfast Tin Soldier

• ORIGINAL (36 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde, Hans Christian Andersen
• Narrated By Dudley Moore, David Dukes

Dudley Moore reads "The Happy Prince", Oscar Wilde's tale of charity and loyalty. David Dukes reads Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", a fable about a tin soldier's love for a paper ballerina.

Treasury of Classic Children's Stories

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde, Brothers Grimm
• Narrated By Audrey Hepburn, John Ritter, Sharon Stone, and others

Audrey Hepburn performs selections from her Grammy Award winning "Enchanted Tales" (adapted by Mary Sheldon); John Ritter tells the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk"; Sharon Stone delivers an off-the-wall rendition of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (the tale by the Brothers Grimm, retold by Richard Hack); and Orson Welles performs the all-time favorite "The Happy Prince" (by Oscar Wilde).