Animal Fairy Tales is a collection of short stories by L. Frank Baum — animal tales comparable to Aesop's Fables and the Just-So Stories and Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling. Baum's stories were first published in 1905 in The Delineator, a popular women's magazine of the era. For several decades in the middle of the twentieth century, the collection was a "lost" work by Baum; it was first published in book form in 1969 by The International Wizard of Oz Club. The contents of the collection are: