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Today we have two new fables from Jean de la Fontaine that warn us about living outside of our means and bragging about our wealth.

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This week (and next) I'll be bringing you some of my favorite fables beginning this week with stories from Jean de la Fontaine.

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Our final story from the American Revolutionary War - 'A Ride for a Bride' - is a much happier tale of a soldier and his love than Wednesday's 'Robert Lockwood's Fate'. A great way to end the week.

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'Robert Lockwood's Fate' is a tale of love and trust gone terribly, terribly wrong during America's Revolutionary War.

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This week we're reading three stories from Charles Skinner's "Myths and Legends of Our Own Land" about the American Revolution, beginning with 'The Tory's Conversion'.

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For our final story from Russia this week we meet a Léshy, a creature with a propensity for abducting children.

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In 'Wednesday' we learn that you shouldn't always ask for help from Mother Wednesday. Especially if it involves preparing your linen.

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This week we're returning to one of my favorite books - "Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore" beginning with a story about what happens when you work on Friday.

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Our final story from Japan this week features the hero Watanabé as he guards the city of Kioto from the oni.

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Today's story from Japan is all about the tengu, a super interesting creature from Japanese folklore and gives us the kind of comprehensive background that we don't always get with mythical creatures…

This week we're in Japan for three new stories, one of a place, one of a creature, and one of a hero. Our story of a place, 'The Waterfall of Yoro' is also a tale of filial love, in honor of the comi…

Today in our story 'Sif's Golden Hair, How Loki Wrought Mischief in Asgard' from "Children of Odin" we get to see Loki perform some of his patented mischief for mischief's sake.

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In 'The Building of the Wall' we get to see Loki use his cunning and tricks for the good of the Gods of Asgard.

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In the first story of Padraic Colum's "The Children of Odin", 'Far Away and Long Ago', we're introduced to some familiar Norse Gods and Goddesses and we're set up for the stories to come of life befo…

In 'How Johnny the Wham Sleeps in Money All the Time and Joe the Wimp Shines and Sees Things' we get a new story from The Potato Face Blind Man, all about two boys who leave their hometown.

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In Part 2 of 'How Googler and Gaggler, the Two Christmas Babies, Came Home with Monkey Wrenches' we learn about the war where the Monkey wrenches come from.

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Today we return to "Rootabaga Pigeons" by Carl Sandburg for two stories over three days, beginning with the tale of two adventurous boys, Googler and Gaggler.

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Today we have the end of the classic fairytale 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood', which ends with an ogress and a battle of deception.

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I can't believe that it's taken this long for me to bring you Perrault's version of Sleeping Beauty, 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood'.

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I've brought you versions of 'The Fairies' before, but there's something about how the rude sister is written that absolutely makes this one my favorite.

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