Sloat, Teri

A retelling of an old Yupik Eskimo tale in which a group of children, ignoring their parent's call, are captured by a giant who has every intention of eating them for supper until fate intervenes.

Farmer Brown and all his animals are ready for sleep, but a tiny whiny humming sound keeps them awake.

A yarn about wool.

Collection of jokes, riddles, and limericks told by the silliest animals ever.

Sent out by his grandmother to find food, Amik consumes a series of animals of ever-increasing size and brings back more than he thinks.

A twister strikes Farmer Brown's farm and mixes the animals all up, so that the cows oinked, sheep clucked, hens brayed, and his hound neighed.

Set on the coast of the Pacific Northwest, this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme describes the silly consequences of an old woman's fishy diet.

A duck marvels at how wonderful it is to be a duck, with feathers, webbed feet, and wings that can fly, from the time he is hatched until he becomes a dad.

Anana, weary of listening to the old women grumble about the dry, tasteless crowberries, comes up with a magical plan for getting blueberries, raspberries, salmonberries, and cranberries to grow on the Alaskan tundra. Includes definitions of Eskimo words.

After a series of mishaps involving crumbs, drips, splatters, and spills, the neat and tidy house that Mom left is a mess.