Folktales and Classic Tales for Children

Stories that parents and grandparents can pass on: Indian folktales and legends, Panchatantra, bedtime stories, and classic fairy tales and novels. Read them aloud together, or give them as a gift. Print editions come first; where an eBook exists it is shown too.

Indian folktales and legends

Stories from across India, the kind that are told and retold in families.

Panchatantra and stories with a lesson

Short tales that children enjoy and that leave something to talk about afterwards.

Classic fiction to gift

Fairy-tale volumes and classic novels, many in hardback.

For the youngest readers

Rhymes, alphabets and dot-to-dot for small hands.

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