A collection of more than two dozen nursery rhymes in Spanish, from Spain and Latin America, with English translations.
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King Stork
The king of the storks grants the drummer three wishes for carrying him across the river.
Daughter of Earth: A Roman Myth
Alone in a meadow one day, Proserpina is happily gathering flowers for her mother when she spies a blossom more beautiful than any she has ever seen. Moments later, she is gone–kidnapped by Pluto, lord of the Underworld, who wants to make her his bride. Sorrowing, Cres wanders her domain, searching for her lost child. At last, in a burst of wrath, she vows to turn the earth into a wasteland unless Proserpina is returned to her.
Jack in Luck
When his seven years’ wages in gold proves too heavy to carry, Jack trades it in for one thing after another until he arrives home empty-handed but convinced he is a lucky man.
Onions, Onions
Eating onions every day and having their house filled with onions is too much for the husband whose wife insists they keep away evil spirits.
Aesop’s Fables
A very special retelling of the fables of Aesop includes some of his less familiar, but no less shrewd and insightful, tales, and features sensitive and warm line drawings.
Animal Fables from Aesop
Here, in all their wisdom and humor, are the timeless fables of Aesop. This collection includes such well-known fables as “The Fox and the Grapes,” as well as such lesser-known tales as “The Wolf and the Lamb” and “The Crow and the Peacocks.”
Belling the Cat and Other Aesop’s Fables
Popular balladeer Tom Paxton retells 10 cautionary tales in ringing, singing, soaring verse.
The Last Giants
The Last Giants is an exceptional book, containing a poignant message about the fragility of our world and its inhabitants’. After finding a huge tooth on the docks, English explorer Archibald Leopold Ruthmore sets out to seek the race of giants to whom the tooth belongs and discovers nine giants, the survivors of a singularly gentle and kindly race.
The Turtle and the Two Ducks: Animal Fables Retold from La Fontaine
The fables of La Fontaine are one of the great treasures of French literature. Based on Aesop’s legendary tales, La Fontaine’s stories capture the charm, the humor, and the wisdom of the seventeenth century. This book offers prose adaptations of the fables of La Fontaine’s most beloved poems.