Ages 6-8
Engaging adventure stories with clever heroes. Great for early readers and classroom use.
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Tale of Shim Cheong: Filial Devotion and the Dragon King’s Blessing
The Tale of Shim Cheong: Filial Devotion and the Dragon King's Bless: The Tale of Shim Cheong: A Korean Folk Story of Love and Sacrifice In the depths of
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Maiden: A Love Between Two Worlds
The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Maiden: A Love Between Two Worlds: The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Maiden: When Love Transcends the Stars High in the mountains
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 3-5
The Glass Mountain: A Polish Tale of Cleverness Over Strength
The Glass Mountain: A Polish Tale of Cleverness Over Strength: In a distant kingdom of Poland, there stood a mountain unlike any other in all the world.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 3-5
The Three Golden Hairs of Grandfather Know-All: A Czech Tale of Wit and Destiny
The Three Golden Hairs of Grandfather Know-All: A Czech Tale of Wit: In the Kingdom of Bohemia, there lived a nobleman who was obsessed with destiny. He had
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 3-5
Baba Dochia and the Coming of Spring: A Romanian Tale of Humility
Baba Dochia and the Coming of Spring: A Romanian Tale of Humility: High in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, where snow fell thick and heavy for months on
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 3-5
The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A German Legend of Promises Broken
The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A German Legend of Promises Broken: In the prosperous German town of Hamelin, where merchant ships once sailed down the Weser River
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 3-5
The Selkie Wife: A Scottish Tale of Love and the Sea
The Selkie Wife: A Scottish Tale of Love and the Sea: On the rocky shores of Scotland, where the North Sea crashes against ancient cliffs, there lived a
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Tortoise and the Baboon
The African Bantu fable of a baboon who invites a tortoise to a feast hung out of reach in a tree, and the tortoise's patient revenge laid across a stretch of fire-blackened ground - the reciprocal-inhospitality story, international tale type ATU 60.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Abiyoyo: The Monster and the Boy
Abiyoyo: The Monster and the Boy: In a small South African village nestled at the edge of the high veld, where grasslands stretched endlessly toward a horizon
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Lion’s Whisker
An Amhara wisdom tale from Ethiopia: a young stepmother, desperate to win her grieving stepson's love, is sent by a wise hakim to pluck a whisker from a living lion - and learns that patience, not magic, is the cure.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Why the Sun and Moon Live in the Sky
An Efik pourquoi tale from southern Nigeria: the Sun and his wife the Moon welcome their friend the Water too well, are flooded out of the great house they built, and are driven up to live in the sky forever.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Anansi and the Pot of Wisdom
The Akan (Ashanti) trickster tale of how Kwaku Anansi the spider tried to hoard all the wisdom of the world in one clay pot - and how his own small son taught him the lesson that scattered wisdom across the whole earth.