A freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of animals until he meets a clever fox.

A retelling of a twelth-century tale in which a young woman falls in love with a merman and determines to marry him despite their separate worlds.

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

In this humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale, a cockroach interviews her suitors in order to decide whom to marry.

Have you seen the full moon? What about the crescent moon? The moon rises every evening but its shape seems to change little by little, every night. What is the real shape of the moon? Do you want to find out? Includes questions and an activity.

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.

This myth explains the origin of the sea, the forest, and the island now called Puerto Rico.

"When the earth was new, words had the power to breathe life into the world. But when creating animals from breath, sometimes one does not get everything right on the first try! Based on a traditional Inuit story passed forward orally for generations in the South Baffin region of Nunavut, this book shares with young readers the origin of the caribou and the walrus--and tells of how very different these animals looked when they were first conceived."--...