In this humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale, a cockroach interviews her suitors in order to decide whom to marry.

Retells the story of Goldilocks, set in an Inuit village and featuring a family of polar bears.

A wealthy man in a Japanese village, whom everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent peop

A collection of eight traditional tales associated with a variety of winter celebrations from Scottish, Russian, Slavey, Austrian, Czech, and Jew

To settle an inheritance dispute between two brothers, King Solomon tells a tale of how Jerusalem came to be founded.

Presents an adaptation of Aesop's classic tale about an unlikely friendship between a mouse and a lion in which an act of mercy proves to be a li

Katrusya's family cannot afford Christmas, but they cut a small pine tree in the forest, decorate it with buttons, and, when baby spiders hatch i

Retells the story of Goldilocks and the three bears in rhyming text interspersed with Spanish words, which are defined in a glossary.

A skeptical visitor to the village of Nemirov finds out where its rabbi really goes just before the Jewish New Year, when the villagers claim he

The author draws from a variety of folk traditions to put together this version of Cinderella, including elements from Mexico, Iran, Korea, Russi

With the help of her fairy godmother, a kitchen maid mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters attends the palace ball where she meets the pri

An old woman complains about all the housework she has to do, but when some fairies come to help her she finds that they are more trouble than th