Legends That Every Child Should Know (Classic Reprint): A Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People - Softcover

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330615115 ISBN 13: 9781330615119

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Timeless legends from around the world, retold for young readers and curious minds. This collection gathers great legends from many cultures, presenting stories that helped shape the imagination of generations. It offers clear context and lively retellings that invite children to discover where these tales came from and how they have lived on.

These pages mix saints’ lives, heroic ballads, fairy tales, and famous myths into a single, approachable volume. You’ll glimpse the history of legends as a form of storytelling and see how old tales continue to inspire new generations.

• Diverse sources ranging from saintly legends to heroic adventures and fairy tales


• Accessible retellings that highlight character, setting, and timeless themes


• Context on how legends evolved from ancient stories into modern favorites


• A curated selection of well-known tales to spark imagination and discussion

Ideal for readers who love stories with depth and wonder, and for families seeking engaging, discussion‑friendly classics.

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Excerpt from Legends That Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People If We knew how the words in our language were made and what they have meant to successive generations of the men and women who have used them, we should have a new and very interesting kind of history to read. For words, like all other creations of man, were not deliberately manufactured to meet a need, as are the various parts of a bicycle or of an automobile: but grew gradually and slowly out of experiences which compelled their production. For it is one of the evidences of the brotherhood of men that, either by the pressure of necessity or of the instinct to describe to others what has happened to ourself and so make common property of personal experience, no interesting or influential or significant thing can befall a man that is not accompanied by a desire to communicate it to others. The word legend has a very interesting history, which sheds light not only on its origin but on early habits of thought and customs. It is derived from the Latin verb legere, which means "to read." As legends are often passed down by word of mouth and are not reduced to writing until they have been known for centuries by great numbers of people, it seems difficult at first glance to see any connection between the Latin word and its English descendant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state o

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Hamilton Wright Mabie

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330615115
• ISBN 13: 9781330615119
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277