Amid the tulipomania craze in seventeenth-century Holland, gardener Ed Vard Grooter’s love of tulips and sea captain Drooter Van Zooter’s love of onions almost bring them to blows.
Primary (ages 6-9)
Material appropriate for primary age groups
When Batistine Made Bread
Six-year-old Batistine makes her own breakfast by milking the cow and baking bread from scratch.
All the Magic in the World
The children who play in the street laugh at the odd-job man Joseph for picking up string and other junk, until he shows them that magic can be found in even the simplest of things.
Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky
An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them.
Cool Time Song
After a hot day on the African savannah, the animals begin to move and make sounds in the cool air of evening.
Jojofu
A young man is saved from death three times by the keen senses of his faithful hunting dog. Based on an old Japanese tale.
The Duendes Hunter
A little girl spends a lot of time listening to the stories her grandmother tells, and one day, she decides to look for the duendes, magical creatures who like to play tricks on people.
Who Built the Pyramid?
Describes the different roles people played in building the pyramid from the water carrier to the King of Egypt, and discover why each claims to have built the pyramid.
Hiding From The Nazis
The true story of Lore Baer who as a four-year-old Jewish child was separated from her parents and placed with a Christian family in the Dutch farm country to avoid persecution by the Nazis.
The Children of India
Introduces the variety and richness of culture in India by describing the daily lives of children from different regions and social levels.