Sources

The tales on Masal Merkezi come from these sources:

• Classic works in the public domain: Aesop, Jean de La Fontaine, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Carlo Collodi, the Arabian Nights, Kalila and Dimna, Rumi's Masnavi and the Book of Dede Korkut. The original texts are in the public domain; the Turkish retellings and their English translations were written for children by Masal Merkezi.
• Anonymous folk tales: Keloglan, Nasreddin Hodja, and Anatolian, Russian, Japanese, English and Norwegian folk tales.
• Original bedtime stories written by Masal Merkezi.

Illustrations were generated with the help of artificial intelligence and are symbolic.

Background music consists of public domain, CC0 and CC BY recordings; the source and license of each track is shown in the music list. We thank the authors of the CC BY tracks.

The retellings and translations made by Masal Merkezi belong to Masal Merkezi. You may share them for non-commercial educational use with attribution. For other uses, write to info@masalmerkezi.com.