Full AspenCat Catalog

Living in the shadow of the Fruitless Mountain, Minli and her parents spend their days working in the rice fields, barely growing enough to feed themselves. Every night, Minli's father tells her stories about the Jade Dragon that keeps the mountain bare, the greedy and mean Magistrate Tiger, and the Old Man of the Moon who holds everyone's destiny. Determined to change her family's fortune, Minli sets out to find the Old Man of the Moon, urged on...

Retellings of seventeen traditional tales including "Chicken Licken," "The Three Little Pigs," and "The Three Billy Goats Gruff."

William Goldman's beloved novel has sold over one million copies. A movie, released twenty years ago, perfectly captured the spirit of the book and has introduced new fans to its pages ever since. In 1941 a young boy lies bedridden from pneumonia. His perpetually disheveled and unattractive father, an immigrant from Florin with terribly broken English, shuffles into his bedroom carrying a book. The boy wants to know if it has any sports. His father...

In this version of Rapunzel, the heroine breaks the enchantment put on her by the ogress who keeps her prisoner with the aid of three acorns.

Odd Thomas, a short order cook at the Pico Mundo Grill, keeps his ability to speak with ghosts a secret from all but his girlfriend, Stormy, and the local police chief who he occasionally helps solve or prevent crime, but his unusual talent leads him and his fellow citizens into big trouble when a strange man comes to town followed by a horde of borachs--ghostly harbingers of mayhem.

An old woman wanted to surprise her husband, so made him a gingerbread man. Before she could take the gingerbread man off the pan, he jumped up and ran away. On his way, he encounters many animals, who want to eat him, but he runs from them all, until he comes to a river. With all the animals and the old man and woman and a woodcutter chasing him, he lets the sly fox talk him into taking a ride on his back to cross the river. The fox may be the...

Aladdin, with the help of a genie from a magic lamp outwits the evil sorcerer and wins the hand of a beautiful princess.

Contents: SLEEPING BEAUTY, THE (by Perrault, Charles); FROG PRINCESS, THE (from the Russian); DONKEY-SKIN (by Perrault, Charles); KUZMA AND THE FOX (from the Japanese); PUSS IN BOOTS (by Perrault, Charles); THUMBELINA (by Andersen, Hans Christian); GREEN SNAKE (by d'Aulnoy, Madame); TINDER BOX, THE (by Andersen, Hans Christian); CINDERELLA (by Perrault, Charles); KIP, THE ENCHANTED CAT (from the Russian); GRACE AND DEREK (by d'Aulnoy, Madame); URASHIMA...

After being accidentally launched on a dangerous and terrible voyage, a one-legged soldier finds his way back to his true love--a paper dancing girl.

Three clever billy goats must outwit a big ugly troll who lives under a bridge that they must cross to eat the long, juicy grass on the other side.