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The Ant and the Grasshopper and Other Stories by Aesop

Website about Aesop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop

Website about fables ¡X stories that teach us something
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable


The Brave Little Tailor and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm

Websites about the Brothers Grimm
www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/article.html
www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html#chronology


The Emperor's New Clothes and Other Stories by Hans Christian Andersen

Website about Hans Christian Andersen
www.andersenfairytales.com/en/main

HKEdCity English Campus Andersen page
www.hkedcity.net/article/ec-hot-highlights/andersen2005/


Folk Tales from Around the World

Folk tales defined
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_tale

The Pied Piper of Hamlin
Read the Robert Browning poem
www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/etext/piper/

Rip Van Winkle
About Washington Irving
www.hudsonvalley.org/education/Background/
abt_irving/abt_irving.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving

The Boy Who Drew Dragons
Website about dragons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon

Dick Whittington and His Cat
The real Dick Whittington
www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/myths_legends/
england/london/index.shtml


Giants, Dragons and Other Magical Creatures

Collection of different dragon legends from around the world
http://www.theserenedragon.net/Tales/tales.html

Webpage about myths of giants
http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Fi-Go/Giants.html


Heroes and Heroines

Mulan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulan

William Tell
http://history-switzerland.geschichte-schweiz.ch/
william-tell-switzerland-hero.html

Grace Darling
www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/myths_legends/
england/tyne/index.shtml

Robin Hood
www.boldoutlaw.com/robbeg/

Pocahontas
www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html


In the Land of the Gods

Norse gods and goddesses
http://www.akasha.demon.co.uk/norse.htm

Norse mythology lexicon
http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/gods.html


Journey to the West

Background information on Journey to the West
http://www.vbtutor.net/Xiyouji/journeytothewest.htm

Webpage of a recent opera production
http://www.monkeyjourneytothewest.com/


The Lion and the Mouse and Other Stories by Aesop

Collection of Aesop's fables
http://www.aesopfables.com/

Biographical information on Aesop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop


The Little Mermaid and Other Stories by Hans Christian Andersen

Andersen biography
http://www.endicott-studio.com/jMA03Summer/hans.html
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/andersen/homepage.html


The Monkey King

Websites about the Monkey King
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_King
www.internationalhero.co.uk/m/monkey.htm


Peter Pan

Information on the character of Peter Pan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan

Official J.M. Barrie webpage
http://www.jmbarrie.co.uk/


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