When a Traveller family experiences a run of bad luck, an imaginative boy called Yokki lifts their spirits with tales of a magical white horse.
Yokki and the Parno Gry
Storytelling
The Two Mountains: An Aztec Legend
Two married gods disobey their orders and visit Earth, are turned into mortals as punishment, and eventually become mountains so that they will always stand side by side.
The Bone Sparrow
Subhi is a refugee. He was born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of a distant homeland, and the center is the only world he knows.
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Tales For Telling: From Around The World
A collection of traditional tales for telling or reading aloud, from such parts of the world as Spain, Russia, and Africa.
The Story Circle
When all of their books are lost in a storm, school children share stories and imagine pictures to go with them then, with their teacher’s help, turn them into a book.
Hammer Of Witches
Baltasar Infante, a bookmaker’s apprentice living in 1492 Spain, can weasel out of any problem with a good story. But when he awakes one night to find a monster straight out of the stories peering at him through his window, he’s in trouble that even he can’t talk his way out of. Soon Baltasar is captured by a mysterious arm of the Spanish Inquisition, the Malleus Maleficarum, that demands he reveal the whereabouts of Amir al-Katib, a legendary Moorish sorcerer who can bring myths and the creatures within them to life. Baltasar doesn’t know where the man is or that he himself has the power to summon genies and golems. Baltasar must escape, find al-Katib, and defeat a dreadful power that may destroy the world. As Baltasar’s journey takes him into uncharted lands on Columbus’s voyage westward, he learns that stories are more powerful than he once believed them to be–and much more dangerous.
Beat The Story-Drum, Pum-Pum (Aladdin Books)
Five traditional Nigerian tales include “Hen and Frog,” “Why Bush Cow and Elephant are Bad Friends,” “The Husband Who Counted the Spoonfuls,” “Why Frog and Snake Never Play Together,” and “How Animals Got Their Tails.”
The Village Of Round And Square Houses
A grandmother explains to her listeners why in their village on the side of a volcano the men live in square houses and the women in round ones.
Legends From Mexico & Central America, A Quetzalcóatl
Tells how an Aztec and Mayan ball game resulted from a quarrel between Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, and Tlaloc, another deity.
Mr. Zinger’s Hat
When Mr. Zinger’s hat flies in and interrupts Leo’s playing, the two of them construct a story as to how exactly the hat took off.