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This book suits families who like stories read aloud, fans of folk tales and nursery rhymes, and anyone curious about how Cinderella and the Pied Piper took shape in English.
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Would you hire a man to clear your town of rats, then refuse to pay him? In the first tale of this book, the Mayor of Franchville does exactly that. The tall stranger in the coat of many colors warns him that he can play other tunes.
More English Fairy Tales was gathered and retold by Joseph Jacobs near the end of the nineteenth century. It holds forty-four tales taken from chapbooks, ballads, nursery rhymes and the notebooks of lady collectors. He kept the plain, chatty voice of the English storyteller. You will meet giants, bogles, a red calf, a buried moon, a fool shopping for brains and a Cinderella tale.
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- 1A broken bargain brings a second tuneFree
- 2A kind husband answers every blunder with patience
- 3Fairy folk punish careless words and clumsy thanks
- 4Brave women and bold lads face the otherworld
- 5Strength and cunning cut giants down to size
- 6Fools and clever wives make a comic family
- 7Cinderella and Catskin show two mistreated heroines
- 8Darker tales set the moon, worms and ghosts to work
- 9Kindness and wit win out over power and greed
- 10A chatty voice, rhymes and notes shape the whole book
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A broken bargain brings a second tune
The book opens in Newtown on the Solent, once called Franchville. The town is so full of rats that nothing is safe. They hollow out cheeses, empty sugar barrels, and dip their tails into casks of beer. Cats, poison and traps have all failed.
A tall, thin stranger arrives in a coat of every color. He calls himself the Pied Piper and asks what they will pay to rid the town of rats. They promise him fifty pounds. Then he plays, and the rats pour out of every hole and follow him to the harbor. The townsfolk crowd their doors and call down blessings on him.
But the Mayor decides the Piper deserves only twenty pounds. The Piper answers that he agreed on fifty. He adds a quiet warning that he can play many kinds of tunes.
Keep your word, because the person you cheat may know more than one tune.
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- LengthAbout 56,800 words
- Reading timeAbout 4 h
Questions about Más cuentos de hadas ingleses
Who is Yallery Brown?
He is a tiny, wrinkled creature with yellow hair, found under a stone by a farm lad named Tom Tiver. He offers help with work but forbids any thanks. The tale comes from the Lincolnshire fens.
Is More English Fairy Tales a true story or based on folklore?
It is folklore. Jacobs took tales from chapbooks, ballads and people's tellings, then rewrote them in an English storyteller's voice. The collection came out in the 1890s as a companion to his earlier English Fairy Tales.
Is More English Fairy Tales easy to read aloud?
The tales are short, the language is plain and chatty, and many have refrains and rhymes that children enjoy. Each tale stands on its own, so a reader can pick one for a single sitting.
What is the Hedley Kow?
In Northumberland lore, the Hedley Kow is a prankster spirit that takes many shapes. In this tale it changes a pot of gold into other things, and an old woman finds a cheerful reason to welcome each change.
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Jacobs, Joseph. More English Fairy Tales. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/more-english-fairy-tales.
Jacobs, J. (2026). More English fairy tales. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/more-english-fairy-tales (Original work published 1894)
Jacobs, Joseph. More English Fairy Tales. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/more-english-fairy-tales.
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