juvenile sound recordings

Folktales from around the world told by adults and children. Encourages children who want to tell their own stories, and also a wonderful resource for adults who tell or teach stories to children.

Shares stories about growing up in diverse homes or communities, from an Asian youth who gains temporary popularity by making up a false background, to a biracial girl whose father clears subway seats by calmly sitting between two prejudiced women.

After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake.

Retells ten myths from ancient Greece, including Bellerophon and Pegasus, Orpheus and Eurydice, and Echo and Narcissus.

Retells Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home from the Trojan War while his wife and son are forced to scheme to protect his throne.

A collection of three books filled with stories about ghosts, monsters, and things that go bump in the night.

A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.

Disaster looms when Strega Nona leaves town for the day and her helper Big Anthony decides to show the townspeople how her magic pasta pot works.

Retells the legend of the African-American railroad builder who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.