Tales of Laughter


Time to exercise your funny bone. This fun collection of stories from around the world will make children of all ages smile and chuckle. A LAUGHING SONG When the greenwoods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it; When the meadows laugh with lively green, And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene; When Mary and Susan and Emily With their sweet round mouths sing “Ha, ha, he!” When the painted birds laugh in the shade, Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread; Come live and be merry and join with me To sing the sweet chorus of “Ha, ha, he!” William Blake. - Summary by Lynne Thompson (15 hr 59 min)

Chapters

The Rats and Their Son-in-Law
The Mouse and the Sausage
The Three Wishes
The Fox and the Goose
If Heaven Will It
The Booby
The Months
The Stone in the Cock's Head
The Fox and the Cat
The Straw Ox
The Cat, The Cock and The Fox
The Fox and the Dove
The Fox and the Hedgehog
The Disappointed Bear
Young Neverfull
Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Leary
The Tail
Jack and the King who was a Gentleman
Hans in Luck
The Family Servants
The Flail Which Came From the Clouds
The Sole's Mouth
The Three Brothers
The Wren and the Bear
The Musicians of Bremen
The Fox and the Cat
The Golden Key
Doctor Know-All
The Fair Catherine and Pif-Paf Poltrie
The Wolf and the Fox
Discreet Hans
King Thrush-Beard
The Three Luck-Children
The Three Sluggards
The Fisherman and His Wife
The Nose-Tree
The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet
The Golden Goose
The Young Giant
The Sweet Soup
Seven at One Blow
The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership
Old Sultan
The Nail
The Fox and the Horse
The Giant and the Tailor
The Spider and the Flea
The Little Shepherd Boy
The Seven Swabians
The Shreds
The Wolf and the Seven Kids
The Elves and the Shoemaker
King Wren
Why the Bear has a Stumpy Tail
Three Ways to Build a House
How to Tell a True Princess
The Five Servants
The Hare and the Fox
The Story of Zirac
Johnny-Cake
The Wee, Wee Mannie
Sir Gammer Vans
Tom Tit Tot
The Old Woman and Her Pig
The Story of the Three Little Pigs
The Three Sillies
The Cat and the Mouse
Hereafterthis
Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse
The Magpie's Nest
Scrapefoot
The Wise Men of Gotham
Henny Penny
A Son of Adam
The Happy Family
The Blind Man, the Deaf Man and the Donkey
The Alligator and the Jackal
Why the Fish Laughed
The Selfish Sparrow and the Houseless Crows
The Lambikin
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
The Greedy Cat
Well Done: Ill Paid
Reynard and Chanticleer
Father Bruin in the Corner
Why the Sea is Salt
Gudbrand on the Hillside
The Pancake
The Death of Chanticleer
Reynard Wants to Taste Horse-Flesh
Bruin and Reynard Partners
Pork and Honey
How Reynard Outwitted Bruin
Nanny Who Wouldn't Go Home to Supper
The Box with Something Pretty in it
The Farmer and the Troll
One's Own Children Always Prettiest
The Princess Whom Nobody Could Silence
The Money-Box
The Darning-Needle
Master of All Masters
Belling the Cat
The Magpie and Her Children
The Cock, the Cuckoo and the Black-Cock
The Race Between Hare and Hedgehog
Bruno's Story
The Bluebottle Who Went Courting
How Two Beetles Took Lodgings
Little Tuppen
The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World
The History of the Seven Families of Lake Pipple-Popple
Wee Robin's Yule-Song
The Giant's Shoes
The Farmer and the Money-Lender
How the Sun, the Moon, and the Wind Went Out to Dinner
Singh Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals
Harisarman
It is Quite True
Manabozho and his Toe
The Most Frugal of Men
The Moon-Cake
The Ladle that Fell from the Moon
The Young Head of the Family
A Dreadful Boar
The Old Man and the Devils
The Wonderful Tea-Kettle
The Wonderful Mallet
The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
Battle of the Monkey and the Crab
The Cub's Triumph
The Silly Jelly-Fish
Chin-Chin Kobamama
The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumplings
The Three Goats
The Fox Turned Shepherd
The Seven Boys and the Monster
The Story of Little Black Mingo
The Cock and the Crested Hen
The Old Woman and the Fish
The Lad and the Fox
The Old Woman and the Tramp