Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic - General
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Children of the Forest
$19.95 Add to cartThe children of the forest live in the roots of an old pine tree and enjoy adventures throughout each season. What surprise will spring bring? A collectable new edition of the classic Elsa Beskow pict
- Author: Beskow, Elsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1782508023
- Language: English
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A Spoon for Every Bite / Una Cuchara Para Cada Bocado
$11.95 Add to cartJoe Hayes’s classic tale about the dangers of a rich man’s pride — winner of two state awards — is now available in a bilingual edition.
El cuento cl?sico de Joe Hayes sobre los peligros del orgullo
- Author: Hayes, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0938317938
- Language: Spanish
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Vietnamese Children’s Favorite Stories
$16.95 Add to cart**Winner of Creative Child Magazine 2015 Book of the Year Award**
This colorfully illustrated multicultural children’s book presents Vietna
**Winner of Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards 2015 Gold Medal**- Series: Favorite Children’s Stories
- Author: Tran, Phuoc Thi Minh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0804844291
- Language: English
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Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$18.95 Read moreNobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer introduces readers to the village of Chelm in this Newbery Honor Book. Chelm is a village of fools. The most famous fools–the oldest and the greatest–are the sev
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 22 2001
- ISBN10: 0060284773
- Language: English
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The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
$8.99 Add to cartIn spring, the hills and meadows of Texas and Wyoming are ablaze with the reds, oranges, and yellows of the Indian Paintbrush. How this striking plant received its name is told in an old Indian legend… [more below]
- Author: dePaola, Tomie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 16 1996
- ISBN10: 0698113608
- Language: English
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Cuckoo/Cucú: A Mexican Folktale/Un Cuento Folklórico Mexicano (Bilingual English-Spanish)
$9.99 Add to cartCuckoo is beautiful. Trouble is, she’s lazy. She never does her share of work–that is, until a field fire threatens the season’s seed crop and Cuckoo is the only one who can save it. But will she ris
- Author: Ehlert, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 015202428X
- Language: Spanish
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The Legend of Leelanau
$17.95 Add to cartThe young maiden Leelinau is forbidden from going into the Spirit Wood. But Leelinau so enjoys her time spent there with the Pukwudjinees (the tiny fairies of the forest) that she risks playing with t… [more below]
- Series: Legend (Sleeping Bear)
- Author: Wargin, Kathy-Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 04 2003
- ISBN10: 158536150X
- Language: English
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Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book
$9.99 Add to cartFrom three-time Pura Belpr? Winner Yuyi Morales, a delightful alphabet picture book about a D?a de los Muertos skeleton who must find the perfect birthday gift (or gifts!)
A 2009 Bank Street – Best C- Author: Morales, Yuyi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1250188490
- Language: English
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Mushroom in the Rain
$8.99 Add to cartAn ant and other animals all take shelter from the rain beneath a mushroom. They don’t think they will all fit under one tiny mushroom, but they still make room for others.
- Series: Rise and Shine
- Author: Ginsburg, Mirra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0689714416
- Language: English
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Japanese Children’s Favorite Stories
$17.95 Add to cartThis colorfully illustrated multicultural children’s book presents Japanese fairy tales and other folk stories–providing insight into a vibrant literary culture.
For 60 years, generations of English-- Series: Favorite Children’s Stories
- Author: Sakade, Florence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 4, 2014
- ISBN10: 4805312602
- Language: English
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The First Strawberries
$8.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning Native American storyteller comes this captivating re-telling of a Cherokee legend, which explains how strawberries came to be.
Long ago, the first man and woman quarrelled. The- Series: Picture Puffin Books
- Author: Bruchac, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140564098
- Language: English
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Two of Everything
$9.99 Read moreEditors’ Choice: Books for Youth 1993, Booklist
100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know, The New York Public Library
1995-1996 Utah Children’s Picture Book Award
1997-1998 Young Hoosier Book Award List- Author: Hong, Lily Toy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0807581585
- Language: English
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Berry Magic
$12.99 Add to cart“This charming pourquoi tale tells of an Eskimo girl and her magic. Sloat’s pictures are vibrant and engaging, befitting the land of the northern lights. . . . Delightful, playful and beautifully writ… [more below]
- Author: Sloat, Teri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: April 1, 2004
- ISBN10: 0882405764
- Language: English
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Filipino Children’s Favorite Stories: Fables, Myths and Fairy Tales
$14.99 Add to cartThis colorfully illustrated multicultural children’s book presents Philippine fairy tales and other folk stories–providing insight into a rich storytelling culture.
Filipino Children’s Favorite Stori- Series: Favorite Children’s Stories
- Author: Romulo, Liana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 3, 2020
- ISBN10: 0804850216
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Outshone the Sun/La Mujer Que Brillaba Aun Mas Que El Sol: The Legend of Lucia Zenteno/La Leyenda de Lucia Zentgeno
$11.95 Read moreBilingual English/Spanish. A legend of Lucia Zenteno, who is part of the oral history of the Zapotec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico.
When Lucia Zenteno walks into a mountain village in central Mexico, some
- Author: Martinez, Alejandro Cruz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2014
- ISBN10: 089239126X
- Language: Spanish
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Tops & Bottoms
$19.99 Add to cartIn this funny Caldecott Honor–winning fairy-tale retelling by Janet Stevens, wily Hare solves his family’s problems by tricking rich and lazy Bear into giving up half his crops.
Once a upon a time, the
- Author: Stevens, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: 29-Mar-95
- ISBN10: 0152928510
- Language: English
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The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura
$18.99 Add to cart- 2024 Oregon Book Award finalist (middle grade fiction)
In this magical and chilling Coraline-esque retelling of the Japanese folktale “The Melon Princess and the Amanjaku,” one girl must save herself–
- Author: Brown, Waka T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063230763
- Language: English
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Ra Pu Zel and the Stinky Tofu
$18.99 Add to cartA playful, feminist retelling of Rapunzel with a Chinese-cuisine twist
The story of Rapunzel where she’s being locked in a tower by a witch is a good one–but it’s not totally the truth. The real stor- Author: Compestine, Ying Chang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593533054
- Language: English
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The Egyptian Cinderella
$9.99 Add to cart“A stunning combination of fluent prose and exquisitely wrought illustrations” (School Library Journal). “An inventive twist on the classic tale” (Publishers Weekly).
This Egyptian spin on the classic
- Author: Climo, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0064432793
- Language: English
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The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning
$9.99 Add to cartIn the third book in the New York Times bestselling series by Chris Colfer, the Brothers Grimm have a warning for the Land of Stories.
Conner Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him–u- Series: Land of Stories #3
- Author: Colfer, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 09, 2015
- ISBN10: 0316406821
- Language: English
