Turtle loves to dance and play the flute. This folktale, first told by the indigenous people of Brazil, is now told throughout Latin America. Like the people of Latin America, Turtle always seems to
A young boyand his pioneer family move to the desert where they are the only Jewishfamily in their small “Wild West” town. Living among strangers without theirextended family proves challenging. Every
This spooky collection of haunting stories from the "Queen of Cold Blooded Tales," Roberta Simpson Brown, may well beThe Scariest Stories Ever Told. These chilling tales take place in normal
These nine short folktales feature stories about traditional holidays celebrated from Czechoslovakia, Russia, France, the United States, and other parts of the world.
Nine inspiring folktales about heroes, including selections from Hungary, Switzerland, India, Japan, and other parts of the world. Each of these classic stories shares an inspiring message of courage
In the shadows lurking between midnight and morning, the imagination reigns. “Real” and “imagined” become simply words with shifting boundaries and slippery definitions.
From African roots to the present day, scholar and storyteller Rex Ellis animates the African-American experience, weaving the strands of African folklore, early American history, and contemporary int
Donald Davis returns to his fictitious Sulpher Springs, North Carolina through the wide eyes of an innocent, forthright narrator: Years later I came to realize that when you come from a long-dammed-u
This volume, the seventh in W.C. Jameson's buried treasures series, contains thirty such tales of forgotten riches. It was these tales and others like them that drove westware expansion, and though ma
Through wit and one-liners, Brummett portrays an American West in which the old ways awkwardly accommodate the new, in which the day's drudgery is seasoned with humor and punctuated by practical jokes
