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A collection of stories, featuring sparrows, jays, buzzards, and bats, based on those African American tales originally written down by Martha Young on her father's plantation in Alabama after the Civil War.

From the cane-fields of the ante-bellum south, the villages of the Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary inner cities, here are more than one hundred tales from an incredibly rich and affirmative storytelling tradition (Choice). Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to stories explaining how the world was created and got to be the way it is, to moral fables that tell of encounters between...

A collection of ninety-five folktales from North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama.

Coyote learns that age brings wisdom, respect, and experience

A collection of fourteen tales about the folk hero Nasreddin Hoca, also known as Goha, a man with a reputation for being able to answer difficult questions in a clever way.

A collection of traditional and modern tales by such authors as Florence Botsford, Joel Chandler Harris, and the Brothers Grimm.

Thirty-two short stories chosen from the tradition of ghost stories from American Indian cultures across North America, featuring witches, walking dolls, hungry skeletons, skinwakers, and other supernatural beings.

A collection of stories from ancient Egypt, written and handed down over a period of two thousand years.

A retelling of the fable from India about six blind men who each get a limited understanding of what an elephant is by feeling only one part of it.

"Explore the legends and discover the fascinating lore of Colorado"--