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A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth.

Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother.

In this folktale from the Andes, a clever guinea pig repeatedly outsmarts the fox that wants to eat him for dinner.

Based on a South African tale, this story tells what happens when a giant who had been banished from a town by a magician thirty years earlier is called back to save the town from flooding.

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.

A retelling of a folktale about how a pair of magical slippers always find their way back to the tiger whose mother made them for him.

After the death of her mother and father, Adelita is badly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters until she finds her own true love at a grand fiesta.

"The first in a groundbreaking new collection of fractured fairy tales, this brilliantly crafted, hilarious twist on the beloved classic finds three goats putting their horns together to cleverly outsmart a hungry troll"--

A boy and his father are banished because the father, a magician, has a habit of making things vanish. But when the monster Abiyoyo appears . . . the boy plays a song on his ukelele to make the monster dance; then the father makes Abiyoyo disappear, and all is forgiven. The charm of this . . . lies in Seeger's wry understatement coupled with Hays' outstanding illustrations . . . The song, with music, is included

A poor shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night.