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Tag: folk tales

December 14, 2022 by Betsy Bird

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2022 Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and Religious Tales

I've been pleased with the slow uptick in these titles over the last few years. So with that in mind, here are the stories and legends that did a particularly good job in 2022.

December 14, 2021 by Betsy Bird

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2021 Fairy Folk, and Religious Tales

Fairytales and folktales are like mushrooms. You have a general sense when they'll crop up but you never know quite where. Today, they're cropping up here.

December 14, 2020 by Betsy Bird

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Fairy, Folk, and Religious Tales

This year I was impressed by the sheer variety of the stories on display. Hope you like your tales done in all kinds of styles from all kinds of places! This year was a good one for this category.

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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2019 Fairytales, Folktales, and Religious Tales

December 14, 2019 by Betsy Bird

One of my favorite lists! Original and traditional tales for everyone to enjoy.

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Fairy Tales, Folktales, and Religious Tales

December 15, 2018 by Betsy Bird

Interestingly, 2018 turned out to be a very strong year for folktales, fairy tales, and religious stories. Why? Well, look closely and you'll see that this is nothing so much as a gathering of small publishers. It's like I always say. The more the big guys consolidate, the more cracks and fissures remain for the little folks to sneak through. Here then are the titles published in 2018 that really stood out and shone:

31 Days, 31 Lists: Day 15 – 2016 Fairy Tales / Folktales

December 15, 2016 by Betsy Bird

Credit where credit is due, there’s no way I could keep up this 31 Days, 31 Lists series if I hadn’t put in my time with New York Public Library.  It was there that I learned how to read, track, remember, and call forth the books I read in a single year.  The 100 Books […]

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The Fairytales and Folktales of 2013: An Accounting

January 21, 2014 by Betsy Bird

If you’ve sat in the audience during one of my talks of 2013, any of them really, then at some point during my presentation I probably mentioned that my deep and abiding love for small publishers is due, in no small part, to the rise in the fairytales and folktales in the marketplace.  It’s not […]

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