A young girl eagerly awaits the birth of her baby cousin, while growing more and more confused by the way her relatives answer her questions.
Europe
Materials from Europe
Cat and Mouse
Mother mouse and mother cat taught their children about the world but one little cat and one little mouse weren’t paying attention. The cat and the mouse become friends and their siblings join them.
The Blood Confession
Cursed at birth, the beautiful and ruthless young Erzebet Bathory becomes obsessed with achieving eternal youth and begins to bathe in the blood of virgin girls to preserve her beauty. Based on the life of the “Blood Countess,” who lived in Hungary in the 1500s.
Along the Tracks
When the train that he is on is bombed, Yankele, a young Polish refugee from the Nazi invasion, is separated from his mother and wanders along the tracks, braving hardship and danger, as he searches for his family.
Moominvalley In November
Winter’s approach brings six friends together in Moominvalley where, in the Moomins’ absence, they must visit with each other.
Don Quixote and the Windmills
Immersed in tales of knights and dragons and sorcerers and damsels in distress, Senor Quexada proclaims himself a knight and sets out on his first adventure against some nearby windmills that he thinks are giants.
Yellowbeak
A baby starling that had apparently tried to fly away from his nest had fallen to the ground and was frightened that someone would eat him.
One Belfast Boy
Describes the life of Liam Leatham, a young Catholic boy, and his family as he prepares for a boxing match that he sees as the first step out of violence-plagued Belfast.
A Tale of Tulips, A Tale of Onions
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.
Pig And Bear
Pig and Bear’s friendship survives several amusing misunderstandings.