Here are the top 30 fairy tales, folk tales & myths books for 11 year olds. Please click Read Review to read book reviews on Amazon. You can also click Find in Library to check book availability at your local library. If the default library is not correct, please follow Change Library to reset it.
1. The Spirit of Steel (The Morus Chronicles Book 2)
by: J.R. Roper Release date: May 13, 2015 Number of Pages: 201 Find in Library Read Review |
Ethan will face beasts and enchantments on this dangerous adventure, from deep below the water’s surface to high in the mountains. Yet his greatest enemies stand by his side as the line between Light and Dark blurs in the search for the Spirit of Steel.
2. The Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea (Aesop Prize (Awards))
by: Anne Sibley O’Brien Release date: Jun 01, 2006 Number of Pages: 48 Find in Library Read Review |
3. The Mystery of Dragon Bridge: A Peach Blossom Village Story
by: Ann Howard Release date: Aug 26, 2014 Number of Pages: 40 Find in Library Read Review |
4. A Collection of Fables
by: Max Walzenbach, Your ToyRobot Release date: Sep 24, 2016 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
5. The Mystery of Maywood Mansion (The Culver Falls Chronicles) (Volume 1)
by: T. S. Benjamin Release date: May 14, 2016 Number of Pages: 246 Find in Library Read Review |
The first book in the Culver Falls Chronicles that begins with The Mystery of Maywood Mansion.
Nothing unusual ever happens in Culver Falls, or so Apple Lewis and Lucy Cooper think. That is, until the girls take home a mystical book from an estate sale at the old Maywood Mansion. The girls are amazed to discover that the book can write itself—and it is recording their lives, right as it happens.
They soon find out that there are others who want the book, and will stop at nothing to possess it—even murder. Pulled into a centuries-old conflict for which nothing could have prepared them, the girls flee for their lives, and find help in the most unexpected places.
So begins their adventure where they meet people who should not exist; are befriended by a princess warrior; evade trolls; outsmart vicious wolves; escape hostile mountain elves, and finally come face to face with the evil Tenebrous—the very one who desires the book.
When facing evil, will they surrender themselves, and the book, or fight to the end?
Book 1 of The Culver Falls Chronicles
For grades 4 – 9
Age range 8 – 14
6. Meow: Cat Stories from Around the World
by: Jane Yolen, Hala Wittwer Release date: Jul 26, 2005 Number of Pages: 40 Find in Library Read Review |
Why are cats and mice enemies?
Why do cats always land on their feet?
Are cats as smart as they seem?
Here’s a story behind each of these feline traits. For centuries, people everywhere, from Tibet to Oman to Scotland to the United States, have been fascinated with cats and their intriguing personalities. In this captivating collection, New York Times best-selling author Jane Yolen has gathered and adapted cat stories, sayings, and nursery rhymes from around the world. The glowing jewel-like illustrations of cats galore in their native homes have been lavishly painted by Hala Wittwer.
7. Mysteries of Life in Children’s Literature
by: Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian, Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian Release date: Dec 02, 2014 Number of Pages: 200 Find in Library Read Review |
The wonders found in fairy tales and myths have enriched childhoods for centuries. In between “Once upon a time” and “happily ever after” we embark on adventures that seem an eternity away from our everyday lives, and yet through these adventures we are brought back to the innocence and beauty of the truth. In The Mysteries of Children’s Literature, journey through a treasury of well-known fables and folk tales, as well as others not so well known, and discover the wisdom hiding within them. In an age that rejects the moral absolutes and repudiates the whole idea of intrinsic evils, children’s literature restores the meaning of good and evil, beautiful and ugly, and normal and abnormal.
“Fairy tales clear the way for sanctity. They are the child’s first morality play, clear-cut, no-nonsense black and white, good and evil, life and death – with a bit of fun thrown in to alleviate the pain.” -Ethel Pochocki
8. The Legend of the Old Man of the Mountain (Myths, Legends, Fairy and Folktales)
by: Denise Ortakales, Robert Crawford Release date: Sep 22, 2004 Number of Pages: 40 Find in Library Read Review |
9. Under the Ice
by: Rachel A. Qitsualik, Jae Korim Release date: Sep 01, 2012 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
10. The Wild Swans
by: Jackie Morris Release date: Oct 01, 2015 Number of Pages: 176 Find in Library Read Review |
This very beautiful and lyrical extended version of the fairy tale ‘The Wild Swans’ by Hans Christian Andersen is the much anticipated companion to East of the Sun, West of the Moon. With strong characterization of the heroine and also with more rounded characterisation of the wicked stepmother than in the original version, and with delicate watercolor paintings throughout, this is both a wonderful story and delightful gift. Beautifully presented in a jacketed edition with foiled title.
11. #05 Tricky Spider Tales (Tricky Journeys TM)
by: Chris Schweizer, Courtney Huddleston Release date: Nov 01, 2013 Number of Pages: 64 Find in Library Read Review |
12. Arabian Nights: Three Tales (Trophy Chapter Books)
by: Deborah Nourse Lattimore, Deborah Nourse Lattimore Release date: Nov 07, 2000 Number of Pages: 80 Find in Library Read Review |
Enter an underground cave and come face-to-face with the Queen of the Serpents.
Journey across a boundless desert to find the Lost City of Brass–and discover for yourself the horrible fate that befell its inhabitants.
Many years ago, the stars twinkled in the desert sky as a beautiful woman entertained a sultan for one thousand and one nights with tales of demons and jinns, sultans and sailors, glittering jewels and lost lands. In this lively and accessible retelling, Deborah Nourse Lattimore brings to wondrous life all the adventure and magic of three of those special tales–tales so amazing, they can’t be true.
Or can they?
13. The Dancing Fox
by: John Bierhorst, Mary K. Okheena Release date: May 20, 1997 Number of Pages: 192 Find in Library Read Review |
14. Fair Is Fair: World Folktales of Justice
by: Sharon Creeden Release date: Dec 28, 1997 Number of Pages: 224 Find in Library Read Review |
This collection of 30 stories about wise judges, clever lawyers, and deceitful tricksters were collected from places as diverse as ancient Greece, Morocco, Germany, China, and Ireland. Some date back to pre-biblical days while others come from the American colonies. From her work as a deputy prosecuting attorney, Sharon Creed draws certain similarities between the cases she used to study and the ancient stories she tells. Rather than give a definition of justice, she allows the book as a whole to speak for itself so that it is left to the reader’s heart to respond to each story?either, “Hey, that’s not fair!” or “Fair is fair.”
15. The Raven Queen: The Feral Child Trilogy
by: Che Golden Release date: Oct 06, 2015 Number of Pages: 260 Find in Library Read Review |
16. The Giant Bear: An Inuit Folktale
by: Jose Angutingunrik, Eva Widermann Release date: Sep 01, 2012 Number of Pages: 40 Find in Library Read Review |
17. Gods, Heroes, and Monsters: Discover the Wonders of Ancient Greek Myths
by: Selene Nicolaides Release date: Jul 01, 2016 Number of Pages: 80 Find in Library Read Review |
18. The Kingfisher Treasury of Dragon Stories (Kingfisher Treasury of Stories)
by: Margaret Clark, Mark Robertson Release date: Feb 21, 2005 Number of Pages: 160 Find in Library Read Review |
19. Marriage of the Rain Goddess: A South African Myth
by: Wolfson Release date: Apr 28, 1996 Number of Pages: 29 Find in Library Read Review |
20. Orpheus and Eurydice
by: Sybil Grafin Schonfeldt, Iassen Ghiuselev, Pauline Hejl Release date: Mar 01, 2001 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
21. Tales of Cats
by: Pleasant DeSpain Release date: Jul 01, 2016 Number of Pages: 80 Find in Library Read Review |
22. Tale of the Red Frog (A Theara Novel)
by: R.J.J. Goude Release date: Oct 03, 2014 Number of Pages: 132 Find in Library Read Review |
23. Way Up and Over Everything
by: Alice McGill, Jude Daly Release date: Mar 21, 2008 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
So begins this account of the author’s great-great-grandmother Jane, and how she meets a slave new to the plantation, a slave who would prove to have magical powers . . . created by the wish for freedom. Alice McGill remembers this story, passed down in her family through the generations, from her childhood and how her greatgrandmother told it to her “as if unveiling a great, wonderful secret. My siblings and I believed that certain Africans shared this gift of taking to the air—’way up and over everything.’”
24. When Lion Could Fly: And Other Tales from Africa
by: Nick Greaves, Rod Clement Release date: Sep 01, 1993 Number of Pages: 144 Find in Library Read Review |
25. #01 Tricky Coyote Tales (Tricky Journeys TM)
by: Chris Schweizer, Chad Allen Thomas Release date: Nov 01, 2013 Number of Pages: 64 Find in Library Read Review |
26. #03 Tricky Fox Tales (Tricky Journeys TM)
by: Chris Schweizer, Michelle Paroline Release date: Nov 01, 2013 Number of Pages: 64 Find in Library Read Review |
27. Aesop & Company: With Scenes from His Legendary Life
by: Barbara Bader, Arthur Geisert Release date: Mar 29, 1999 Number of Pages: 64 Find in Library Read Review |
28. The Battle of Culver Falls (The Culver Falls Chronicles) (Volume 2)
by: T.S. Benjamin Release date: May 15, 2016 Number of Pages: 406 Find in Library Read Review |
Apple and Lucy don’t have long to wait for Tenebrous to return from hiding.
To prepare them for the next battle, Queen Avaric begins teaching them, but lessons are soon interrupted by the intrusion of Lord Tenebrous.
But that isn’t all that is amiss. Someone is stirring up anti-human sentiment at the school of mythical people, so the queen asks the girls to attend the school to discover the source of the unrest.
Who can it be? Is it Tenebrous? Is it the diabolical, yet inept, Prince Olrick? When they discover the anti-human plot, they find that it is much more deadly than a bit of student unrest.
Can the girls foil the murderous plan? Can anyone? Their solution is unimaginable in the human world, but that has never stopped the girls before. In the process,
Lucy discovers that Apple’s mom’s death was not an accident, and Apple is determined to do something to prevent her mother’s murder. But how? Her mom died ten years ago.
Apple must choose: save her mom, or save the people of Culver Falls. She cannot do both.
Book 2 of The Culver Falls Chronicles
For grades 4 – 9
Age range 8 -14
29. Beauties and Beasts (The Oryx Multicultural Folktale Series)
by: Betsy Hearne Release date: Apr 13, 1993 Number of Pages: 192 Find in Library Read Review |
30. Best Fairy Stories of the World (Macmillan Collector’s Library Book 102)
by: Marcus Clapham Release date: Oct 06, 2016 Number of Pages: 528 Find in Library Read Review |
Fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and so a study of the world’s best fairy stories offers a wealth of insights into the human mind, from a multitude of nations and cultures. Folk tales and fairy stories were originally intended for both adults and children – Grimms’ Household Tales, for instance – and this international anthology brings together ‘The Frog Who Became an Emperor’ from China, ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ from Norway and ‘Pinocchio’ from Italy, as well as the classic stories of Aesop, Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and Oscar Wilde, among many others.
Accompanying artwork by the masters of children’s book illustration, including Arthur Rackham, Charles Robinson, Walter Crane and Howard Pyle, will appeal to readers of all ages.
Designed to appeal to the booklover, Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound hardback gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.
Best Selling Books for 11 year olds:
- Action & Adventure
- Activities, Crafts & Games
- Animals
- Biographies
- Classics
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Technology
- Early Learning
- Education & Reference
- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
- History
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Humor
- Literature & Fiction
- Mysteries & Detectives
- Religions
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science, Nature & How It Works
- Sports & Outdoors
- Children’s Cookbooks
Recommended Books for 11 year olds:
- Action & Adventure
- Activities, Crafts & Games
- Animals
- Biographies
- Classics
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Technology
- Early Learning
- Education & Reference
- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
- History
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Humor
- Literature & Fiction
- Mysteries & Detectives
- Religions
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science, Nature & How It Works
- Sports & Outdoors
- Children’s Cookbooks
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