Hausman, Gerald

Mary Bryant, among the first of a wave of convicts to be transported to Australia in the late eighteenth-century, stages a daring escape in an open boat from the brutal conditions of the Botany Bay penal colony, along with her husband and two children, and seven other convicts.

Includes six ghost stories from Jamaica which are based on the country's legends and have their roots in African folklore; each story is accompanied by a section about the teller of the tale.

A fictional account of the life of the nineteenth-century philosopher and nature writer, Henry David Thoreau.

In this traditional tale, a great magic elk helps a mute Native American boy find his voice.

A collection of Native American myths and legends that reveals the deeper meanings of the culture of the nation's original civilization.

Six stories about shipwrecked people struggling to survive in difficult circumstances.

A collection of Native American myths and legends that reveals the deeper meanings of the culture of the nation's original civilization.

In 1864, a Navajo shaman and his grandson seek powerful, mythical beads that can save their people from great evils, including The Long Walk forced on them by United States soldiers, and the trickster Coyote.

A collection of stories from Egypt, India, Japan, Scandinavia, Ireland and other places that portray cats as goddesses, guardians, tricksters, warriors, magicians, and more.