Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic - General
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Peter’s Old House
$19.95 Add to cartAt the end of a street, in a little village, is Peter’s old house. Peter helps everyone: mending clocks, building toy boats, and telling stories. But he is too poor to fix his falling down house. Who
- Author: Beskow, Elsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 28
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1782507515
- Language: English
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Bone Button Borscht
$11.99 Add to cartOn a dark winter’s night, a ragged beggar dreams of a warm hearth and a delicious meal — and sets out to find just that. In this retelling of the classic folk tale “Stone Soup,” a stranger teaches t… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Aubrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1550743260
- Language: English
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Princess Sylvie
$19.95 Add to cartPrincess Sylvie and her father, the king, leave the palace gardens for a walk in the woods. Then Oskar the dog runs off after a long-eared hare and Sylvie’s adventures begin. What will they find hidin
- Author: Beskow, Elsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 28
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 178250723X
- Language: English
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The Runaway Wok: A Chinese New Year Tale
$18.99 Add to cartWhen a boy goes to the market to buy food and comes home with an old wok instead, his parents wonder what they’ll eat for dinner. But then the wok rolls out of the poor family’s house with a skippity-… [more below]
- Author: Compestine, Ying Chang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0525420681
- Language: English
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Viborita de Cascabel/Baby Rattlesnake
$11.95 Add to cartBilingual English/Spanish. A Native American (Pawnee) tale of family love and forgiveness.
Baby Rattlesnake wants a rattle like his older siblings have. His crying keeps the rattlesnake elders up all n
- Author: Ata, Te
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 089239188X
- Language: Spanish
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How Chipmunk Got His Stripes
$8.99 Add to cartBear brags that he can do anything-even stop the sun from rising. Brown Squirrel doesn’t believe him, so the two wait all night to see if the sun will rise. Sure enough, the sky reddens and the sun ap… [more below]
- Series: Picture Puffin Books
- Author: Bruchac, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0142500216
- Language: English
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The Bossy Gallito / El Gallo de Bodas: A Traditional Cuban Folktale (Bilingual)
$6.99 Add to cartErase una vez un gallito mandon que iba muy limpiecito a la boda de su tio Perico… Hasta que se ensucio y quiso que todos lo ayudaran a volver a estar limpiecito. Un libro muy divertido en ingles y
- Author: González, LucÃa M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 043906757X
- Language: Spanish
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The Tale of the Little, Little Old Woman
$12.95 Read moreA little, little old woman lives in a little, little old cottage with a mischievous little cat in this collectable new edition of the classic picture book from world-renowned Swedish author–illustrat
- Author: Beskow, Elsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1782508791
- Language: English
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American Tall Tales
$19.99 Add to cartThe perfect addition to every family’s home library and just right for sharing aloud, American Tall Tales introduces readers to America’s first folk heroes in nine wildly exaggerated and downright fun
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 24 1991
- ISBN10: 0679800891
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of Ahmad Shah: English-Pashto Edition
$11.90 Add to cart(Bilingual English-Pashto edition) Some 250 years ago, the Great King Ahmad Shah Durrani ruled Afghanistan and, from there, a magnificent empire extending from eastern Iran to northern India, and from
- Series: Hoopoe Teaching-Stories
- Author: Bazger Salam, Palwasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1944493646
- Language: English
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The Elsa Beskow Alphabet Book
$19.95 Add to cartA charming alphabet book for everyone who loves Elsa Beskow’s classic picture books.
Journey through the world of Elsa Beskow from Accordian to Zzz, with everything in between — Cow and Elephant, Flo
- Author: Beskow, Elsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1782507728
- Language: English
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Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella
$8.99 Add to cartA Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator team brings us a Caribbean Cinderella story, told from the perspective of the magical godmother.
You may think you already know this story about a beautif- Author: San Souci, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0689848889
- Language: English
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Bunso Meets a Mumu
$18.99 Add to cartMeet Bunso, a boy with a really scary problem. It’s the Mumu, the Filipino version of the Boogeyman, who likes to punish kids who misbehave by sucking the fun out of everything! The Mumu will not let
- Series: Bunso Meets… #1
- Author: Valdez, Rev
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1223186393
- Language: English
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The Sun Egg
$19.95 Add to cartA mysterious orange egg has fallen into the woods. “It’s a sun egg!” declares the elf who finds it nestled on the forest floor. Soon she and her friends discover what it really is; but not before the
- Author: Beskow, Elsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1782507256
- Language: English
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Uncle Nacho’s Hat / El Sombrero del TÃo Nacho
$11.95 Add to cartReading Rainbow Selection – PBS Kids
Bilingual English/Spanish. A classic Nicaraguan folktale: when Ambrosia gives her Uncle Nacho a new hat, he tries to get rid of his old one, but to no avail.
When Am
- Series: Reading Rainbow Books
- Author: Rohmer, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 089239112X
- Language: Spanish
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The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water
$11.90 Add to cartWhen a good-natured lion, king of all the animals, sees his reflection in a pool of water for the first time, he gasps at the fierce creature staring back at him and is too frightened to drink – until
- Series: Teaching Stories
- Author: Shah, Idries
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1942698178
- Language: English
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Montezuma’s Tantrum
$15.95 Add to cartEmperor Montezuma’s court tries everything to cure his bad mood in this delightful and hilarious story that sheds light on life in the Aztec empire–and the origins of hot chocolate.
Montezuma is in a- Series: Aldana Libros
- Author: Benet, Nuria G?mez
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1778400949
- Language: English
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The Silly Chicken
$11.90 Add to cartThis is a delightful and humorous tale about a chicken who learns to speak as we do – with unexpected consequences. The surprising events that follow intrigue young children and, at the same time, ale
- Series: Teaching Stories
- Author: Shah, Idries
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1942698194
- Language: English
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The Tall Tale of the Giant’s Causeway: Finn McCool, Benandonner and the Road Between Ireland and Scotland
$14.95 Read moreA charming, playful picture book tale about how the rivalry between an Irish giant and a Scottish giant lead to the creation of the world-famous Giant’s Causeway.
One day, Irish giant Finn McCool spo
- Series: Traditional Celtic Tales
- Author: Don, Lari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1782508155
- Language: English
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Native Plant Stories
$24.95 Read moreThese mythical stories draw upon legends from eighteen Native American tribes and illustrate the importance of plant life in Native American traditions.
- Author: Bruchac, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 1555912125
- Language: English
