A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

Abelardo defies his father's instructions and sets out to free a whale caught in their tangled fishing net.

Gisella, a great-grandmother, tells a story from her youth, when she was tricked into exchanging her young body with that of a fox and tried to get it back while a war tore apart her home and her country.

"Moose, Goose, and Mouse ride a loose caboose on their way to finding a new house"--

"Once in a book by Mordecai Gerstein ... there lived a family of characters." This is the tale of one little girl's search for her own story.

When jellybeans that Duck grew win a prize at the fair, the king comes and "borrows" some but after much time passes Duck, accompanied by many of his friends, arrives at the castle to get them back.

An hour-by-hour description of the activities that take place as the sun rises, moves through the sky, and finally sets.

After dying, a Tibetan woodcutter is given the choice of going to heaven or to live another life anywhere in the universe.

"The world!" the newly born Hermes says. "It's even better than I expected! I love it! I want it all!" This book is filled with joy, exuberance, and humor. On his first day of life, Hermes manages to trick a turtle into surrendering its shell and a ram into surrendering its horns, thereby inventing the lyre, music, and song! He also manages to steal his brother Apollo's precious cows, but later redeems himself by outwitting the giant brothers Otus...

Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.