Charles Deulin Fairy Tales gathers folk stories from French Flanders, collected in the 1800s and read softly by Elizabeth Grace.
Charles Deulin, a French journalist and folklorist, spent years gathering stories that had been told by firesides in northern French villages for generations. This collection includes "The Nettle Spinner" and "Johnny Nut and the Golden Goose," alongside other tales of clever peasants, stubborn fairies, and small kindnesses quietly rewarded. The tone is plain and old-fashioned, closer to a story told in a farmhouse kitchen than a polished literary fairy tale.
It's a gentle helping of French folklore, well suited to anyone who enjoys the Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang's fairy books, or any old tale passed down by word of mouth. Elizabeth Grace's voice stays low and mild, so the stories blur together at the edges and keep going long after you've drifted off.
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