Retellings of myths and stories from different cultures of both past and present.

Most of these are books I have not read, but are from good authors, good publishers, have received good reviews, or look particularly appealing. Many titles come from a trawl through the online catalogues of Frances Lincoln and Barefoot Books.

Round-the-World Collections

• Story Tree: Tales to Read Aloud (Hugh Lupton)  UK
• Tales of Wisdom and Wonder (Hugh Lupton) UK
• Golden Myths and Legends of the World (Geraldine McCaughrean) UK
• Silver Myths and Legends of the World (Geraldine McCaughrean) UK
• The Bronze Cauldron: Myths and Legends of the World (Geraldine McCaughrean) UK
• The Orchard Book of Creation Stories (Margaret Mayo) UK
• Spirit of the Forest: Tree Tales from Around the World (Eric Maddern, Helen East and Alan Marks)  UK
• Forest of Stories: Magical Tree Tales from Around the World (Rina Singh) UK
• Animal Tales from Around the World (Naomi Adler)  UK
• The Orchard Book of the Unicorn and Other Magical Animals (Margaret Mayo and Jane Ray)
  
• Fabrics of Fairy Tale: Stories Spun from Far and Wide (Tanya Robyn Batt) UK
• Shakespeare's Storybook: Folk Tales that Inspired the Bard (Patrick Ryan)  UK
• The Orchard Book of Swords, Sorcerors and Superheroes (Tony Bradman and Tony Ross) UK
• Stories from the Sea (James Riordan)  UK

Fairy Tales

• The Orchard Book of Fairy Tales (Rose Impey and Ian Beck) UK
• The Oxford Treasury of Fairy Tales (Geraldine McCaughrean) UK
• Tales from Hans Christian Anderson (Naomi Lewis)  UK
• Elf Hill: Tales from Hans Anderson (Naomi Lewis and Emma Chichester Clark) - shorter (and simpler?) than the book above UK
• Favourite Stories from Hans Christian Anderson (Andrew Matthews) UK
• The Sleeping Princess and Other Fairy Tales from Grimm (Saviour Pirotta and Emma Chichester Clark) UK

Ancient Myths

• Gilgamesh the Hero (Geraldine McCaughrean) UK
• The Orchard Book of Stories from Ancient Egypt (Robert Swindells) UK
• Tales of Ancient Egypt (Roger Lancelyn Green) UK
• Traditional Tales from Ancient Egypt (Vic Parker)
• The Star Bearer: a Creation Myth from Ancient Egypt (Dianne Hofmeyer and Jude Daly) UK
• The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths (Saviour Pirotta) UK
• The Orchard Book of Greek Myths (Geraldine McCaughrean and Emma Chichester Clark) UK
• The Orchard Book of Greek Gods and Goddesses (Geraldine McCaughrean) UK
  
• Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green UK
• The Luck of Troy by Roger Lancelyn Green UK
• The Tale of Troy by Roger Lancelyn Green UK
• Greek Myths by Olivia Coolidge
• The Trojan War by Olivia Coolidge
• Jason and the Golden Fleece (James Riordan) - longer picture storybook UK
• Adventures of Odysseus (Daniel Morden and Hugh Lupton)  UK
• Persephone (Sally Pomme Clayton) - legend of origin of Spring UK
• The Orchard Book of Roman Myths (Geraldine McCaughrean and Emma Chichester Clark) UK
  

Aesop's Fables

• The Orchard Book of Aesop's Fables (Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester Clark) UK
• The Tortoise and the Hare (Angela McAllister) - Aesop's fable  UK

Medieval Myths, Legends and Stories

• Beowulf (Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman) UK
• The Orchard Book of Vikings (Robert Swindells) UK
• The Orchard Book of Legends of King Arthur (Andrew Matthews and Peter Utton) UK
• El Cid (Geraldine McCaughrean) UK
• The Canterbury Tales (Geraldine McCaughrean) UK
• The Questing Knights of the Faerie Queen (Geraldine McCaughrean) UK

South America

• The Great Snake - Stories from the Amazon (Sean Taylor) UK
• Traditional Stories from the Amazon (Saviour Pirotta) UK
• Mariana and the Merchild: a Folk Tale from Chile (Caroline Pitcher and Jackie Morris) UK
• Up and Down the Andes: a Peruvian Festival Tale (Laurie Krebs) UK
• The Faraway Island (Dianne Hofmeyer) - legend of St Helena UK

North America

• The Salmon Princess: an Alaskan Cinderella Story (Mindy Dwyer)
• Lord of the Animals: a Miwok Indian Creation Myth (Fiona French)  UK

Caribbean

• Clever Anansi and Boastful Bullfrog (H.Patten) UK

Africa

• The Bachelor and the Bean (Shelley Fowles) - Moroccan-Jewish story UK
• The Egyptian Cinderella (Shirley Climo and Ruth Heller)
  
• The Leopard's Drum (Jessica Souhami) - West Africa UK
• Chinye (Obi Onyefulu) - an African Cinderella story UK
• The Fire Children: a West African Tale (Eric Maddern and Frane Lessac) - creation story  UK
• The Coming of Night (James Riordan) - Yoruba folk tale  UK

Australia

• Stories from the Billabong (James Vance Marshall and Frances Firebrace) UK
• Rainbow Bird (Eric Maddern) UK

China

• Traditional Stories from China (Saviour Pirotta) UK
• Tales from China (Cyril Birch) - Oxford Myths and Legends series UK
• Wishbones: a Folk Tale from China (Barbara Ker Wilson) UK
• The Elephant's Pillow (Diana Reynolds Roome)  UK
• King Pom and the Fox (Jessica Souhami) UK

India

• Indian Tales: a Barefoot Collection (Shenaaz Ranji) UK
• Stories from India (Anna Milbourne) - Usborne book UK
• Stories from India (Vayu Naidu) UK
• Tales from India (J.E.B.Gray) - Oxford Myths and Legends series UK
• Rama and the Demon King: a Tale of Ancient India (Jessica Souhami) UK
• The Drum: a Folk Tale of India (Rob Cleveland)
• The Story of Little Babaji (Helen Bannerman) - India
• The Story of Divaali (Nilesh Mistry and Jatinder Verma) UK
  

Asia (Other)

• The Smallest Samurai (Fiona French) - Japan UK
• The Boy of the Three Year Nap (Allen Say) - Japan
• The Land of the Dragon King and Other Korean Stories (Gillian McClure)   UK
  
• The Korean Cinderella (Shirley Climo and Ruth Heller)
• Tenzin’s Deer: a Tibetan Tale (Barbara Soros)  UK
• All the Way to Lhasa: a Tale from Tibet (Barbara Helen Berger)
  
• Tales Told in Tents (Sally Pomme Clayton) - 12 tales from Central Asia UK
• Stories from the Silk Road (Cherry Gilchrist) UK
• Buddhist Tales (Sherab Chodzin) UK

Middle East

• My Sister Shahrazad: Tales from the Arabian Nights (Robert Leeson and Christina Balit) UK
• The Thousand Nights and One Night (David Walser and Jan Pienkowski) UK
• The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor (James Riordan and Shelley Fowles)  UK
• The Golden Slipper: an Ancient Egyptian Fairy Tale (Saviour Pirotta) UK
• A Fistful of Tales and Other Pearls from Iraq (Elizabeth Laird and Shelley Fowles) UK
• Ghaddar the Ghoul and Other Palestinian Folk Tales (Sonia Nimr) UK
• Seven Wise Princesses: a Persian Epic (Wafa Tarnowska) UK

Europe

• Hidden Tales from Eastern Europe (Antonia Barber and Paul Hess) UK
• Climbing Rosa (Shelley Fowles) - Hungary UK
• A Gift for the Contessa (Michael Mele and Ronald Paolillo)
• Strega Nona (Tomie de Paola)
• East O'the Sun and West O'the Moon (Naomi Lewis and P.J.Lynch) - Norwegian fairy tale UK
• The Dragon of Krakow and Other Polish Stories (Richard Monte and Paul Hess)  UK
• Clever Katya: a Fairy Tale from Old Russia (Mary Hoffman) UK
• Little Daughter of the Snow (Arthur Ransome) - Russia UK
• Alyosha’s Apple: a Tale of Old Russia (Alvin Alexsi Currier) - Russia
• The Frog Bride (Antonia Barber) - Russia UK
• The Prince Who Thought He Was a Rooster and Other Jewish Stories (Ann Jungman) UK

British Isles

• The Merrymaid of Zennor (Charles Causley and Michael Foreman) - Cornwall, England UK
• The White Horse of Zennor (Michael Morpurgo) - Cornwall, England UK
• The Mousehole Cat (Antonia Barber) - Cornwall, England UK
• From Hereabout Hill (Michael Morpurgo)
• The Enchanted Forest: a Scottish Fairytale (Rosalind Kerven and Alan Marks) UK
• Tales from Celtic Lands (Caitlin Matthews)  UK
• The Orchard Book of Irish Fairy Tales and Legends (Una Leavy and Susan Field) UK
• Tales from Old Ireland (Malachy Doyle) UK
• The Little Blue Slipper: an Irish Cinderella Story (Jude Daly)  UK
• Una and the Sea Cloak (Malachy Doyle) - Ireland UK