McDermott, Gerald

Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.

Daedalus fashions wings for the escape of himself and his son Icarus from the Labyrinth of King Monos of Crete, but Icarus fails to heed his father's warnings about their use.

When Pluto wrongly takes Proserpina to be his bride in the Underworld, Ceres, mother of Proserpina and goddess of the Earth, withdraws into a cave to mourn and refuses to permit crops to grow.

A very poor Irishman is provided with magical things by the "wee folk", but he must then keep his good fortune out of the hands of the greedy McGoons.

A simply stated, vividly illustrated retelling of the creation story in the Book of Genesis.

A retelling of the La Fontaine fable in which a stork finds a way to outwit the fox that tricked him.

Because of a pooka spirit, Daniel O'Rourke embarks on a fantastic journey.

Relates the consequences of a stonecutter's foolish longong for power.

Pig-Boy, a dirty, hairy trickster, uses his shape-shifting talents to get out of all sorts of troublesome situations.

Papagayo, the noisy parrot, helps the night animals save the moon from being eaten up by the moon dog.