legends

Relates the extraordinary deeds of the frontiersman who became King of the Keelboatmen on the Mississippi River.

Even though the railroad fireman senses danger ahead, he follows his engineer's command to increase the train's power so that the mysterious whistle blows.

A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.

Tells stories and legends from the life and work of St. Francis of Assisi and his followers.

A retelling of the traditional tale about a bee that repays King Solomon's kindness by helping him solve the Queen of Sheba's riddle.

Based on Malory's fifteenth century Morte d'Arthur, this book presents an idealized Middle Ages, a world filled with violent tests of courage, clamorous and raging battle, adventurous quests, and yearning love of knight and damsel.