These lists consist of folktale, fairy tale, and mythology texts that might be useful in teaching an introductory survey course in children's literature. ISBNs are current as of spring 2007. Following the text list is a list of accessible articles on folk and fairy tales suitable for undergraduates:

Cole, Joanna, ed. Best-Loved Folktales of the World.  New York: Anchor, 1983.
I used this collection as a student in an undergraduate children's literature class.  It provides folktales from a variety of countries, but more than half of the book is devoted to European versions.  792 pages.  About $15. 

Hallett, Martin, and Karasek, Barbara. Folk and Fairy Tales, 3rd. ed. Ontario: Broadview Press, Ltd., 2002. ISBN: 1-55111-495-X. Includes traditional fairy tales divided by theme, 19th century literary tales, 20th century revisionist tales, poetry, illustrations, and a few critical articles

Hamilton, Virgina.  In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World.  San Diego: Harcourt, 1988. 
This collection only has creation myths, but does a good job of giving quite a variety without contrasting them against each other.  The book is organized thematically, with country of origin noted in an endnote after each myth.  Hamilton includes the Biblical creation story as well and provides useful, although very brief, introductions to terms and commonalities found in myths.  160 pages.  About $15. 

Phelps, Ethel Johnston, ed. Tatterhood and Other Tales. New York: Feminist Press, 1978. ISBN 0-912670-50-9. Traditional yet little-known tales from around the world that feature strong heroines and community values, with source notes.

Philip, Neil. American Fairy Tales: From Rip van Winkle to the Rootabaga Stories. Illustrated by Michael McCurdy. Preface by Alison Lurie. New York: Hyperion, 1998. ISBN: 0-7868-1093-9 (may be hard to get--amazon lists only copies available from other sellers): Stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Stockton, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, and Carl Sandburg, among others.

Useful websites:

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html (created by D. L. Ashliman as a companion site to his book Folk and Fairy Tales: A Handbook, 
wealth of electronic resources, folktales grouped by their AT numbers, submitted by Melissa Smith)

http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/ftales.htm  (includes useful bibliographies of fairy tale collections, revisionist novels and story collections, and fairy tale criticism, created by Waller Hastings, submitted by Genevieve Larson)

http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/myth.html  This site is aimed at teachers and focuses almost entirely on myths and legends.  Since folk and fairy tales are usually easier to find in collections, this attempts to fill that gap.  It has extensive links as well as texts from a large variety of cultures. Note: ths website is maintained by a physics teacher, not a folklorist or literary scholar. (submitted by Genevieve Baumann)

http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Folklore/Literature/Tales/Fairy_Tales/
This is a rather odd site that actually led me to the others. It is basically a database type view of the folk/fairy tale sites available.  Google has then sorted them into subheadings. (submitted by Genevieve Baumann)


http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sleepingbeauty/index.html
The majority of the tales on this site are Western, but each the tales contain hyperlinks which explain motifs within the tales.  The site also includes histories, modern interpretations, annotations, bibliographies, illustrations, and other resources for each fairy tale. (submitted by Genevieve Baumann)