When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.

A little girl walking in the woods finds the cotttage of the three bears and helps herself to their food and belongings.

When the town mouse and the city mouse visit each other they discover they prefer very different ways of life.

Drawing from both traditional Eastern European literary sources and the vast body of oral material from the Middle East, here is a remarkably diverse and immensely entertaining gathering of Jewish legends and tales. The first world-wide anthology of Jewish folktales.

Retells the fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.

In this version of Cinderella set in Egypt in the sixth century B.C., Rhodopes, a slave girl, eventually comes to be chosen by the Pharaoh to be his queen.

A rhyming twist on the classic fairy tale in which a little girl saves her grandmother from a wolf. Includes glossary of Spanish words.

In this version of the Mayan origin story, the child Balám travels to a village on the back of a big blue turtle, but he is preceded by a louse, a toad, a snake, and a hawk, all carrying the good news of his arrival.

A poor young man gains a fortune and meets a beautiful princess when his cat, the clever Puss, outwits an evil giant.