folklore

In this retelling of an Ojibwe Indian tale, a mother bear loses sight of her two cubs as they all attempt to escape a forest fire by swimming across Lake Michigan.

While hunting, Brave Wolf is snatched by a huge Thunderbird and taken to her nest on a high cliff so he can protect her chicks from a monster.

One of an old man's turnips grows to such an enormous size that he needs the help of his wife, a little girl, a dog, a cat, and a mouse to pull it up.

A brief retelling of selected parts of the Arthurian legend.

A sequel to the original tale. Jim meets a sad and aging giant who complains that some boy once climbed up the beanstalk and robbed his father. Jim tries to improve the giant's lot.

The king is so pleased with the old man's sincerity, cleverness, and wisdom that he dismisses his jealous and greedy chief counselor and appoints the old man in his place.

The people in a village in the Amazon rain forest grow so lazy that they eagerly allow a strange man to create monkeys from leaves to do everything for them.

A young Inca girl succeeds where her brothers and others have failed, when her bird friends help her find the special water that will cure the king's son.

Presents eight myths and legends from various Native American peoples, including the Algonquins, Pawnees, Blackfeet, and Navajo.

A story about the greed and selfishness of one Dakota woman who took all the beans from Heetunka the Bean Mouse and gave nothing in return.