Folk Tales & Legends

Folk tales and legends from cultures around the world carry the wisdom of oral tradition into the hands of today’s readers. This collection of roughly 100 titles gathers European, Asian, African, and Indigenous folk narratives chosen for literary quality and Waldorf classroom suitability.

You will find Norse mythology retellings by Padraic Colum, Celtic legends by Ella Young, and saint legends by Isabel Wyatt and Jakob Streit. Charles Kovacs’ classroom narratives on Norse, Greek, and Roman mythology are well represented. The Brothers Grimm Complete Fairy Tales anchors the Germanic tradition, while D’Aulaires and Roger Lancelyn Green cover classical mythology for older children.

Waldorf class teachers use folk tales in grades one through five as part of the narrative curriculum. For picture-book editions, visit Fairy Tale Picture Books.