storytelling

"When Little Red Chicken comes home excited about what she learned in school, she explains to Papa that every story has 'an elephant of surprise'"--OCLC.

"Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade. Maple is devastated--what will her friends think? Will they forget about her? She uses her storytelling skills to convince her classmates that she's staying back as a special teacher's assistant (because of budget cuts, you know). But as Maple navigates the loss of old friendships, the possibility of new ones, and facing her reading challenges head-on, her deception becomes harder to keep up. Can Maple begin to recognize her own strengths, and to love herself--and her brain--just the way she is? Readers who have faced their own trials with school and friendships will enjoy this heartwarming story and its bright, creative heroine"--Provided by the publisher.

A rhinoceros and an oxpecker bird share an unusual friendship, which only deepens as one nears the end of life.

When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.

An innkeeper's chore boy discovers that a visitor's stories hold the key to returning the moon to the Starry River of the Sky.

"In a tent at the foot of a mountain in Palestine, many years ago, our storyteller and her twin sister are born. Her parents name her Qamar or Moon, and her sister Shams, or Sun. Their tiny caravan is journeying from the mother's city back to the father's remote ancestral village atop the mountain. This village suffers from isolation, and from a mysterious curse -- females are no longer born there. When her parents try to break the spell, their lives are cut short, and Qamar and her sister are left to fend on their own. And so, Qamar decides to pursue her mother and father's dream of discovering the world -- its people and places. With the treasured book in hand that brought her parents together, she sets out on a daring journey, on caravans and ships, across empires"--Back cover.

"From the author who brought you The Encyclopedia of Early Earth comes another Epic Tale of Derring-do. Prepare to be dazzled once more by the overwhelming power of stories and see love prevail in the face of Terrible Adversity! You will read of betrayal, loyalty, madness, bad husbands, lovers both faithful and unfaithful, wise old crones, moons who come out of the sky, musical instruments that won't stay quiet, friends and brothers and fathers and mothers and, above all, many many sisters,"--page [4] of cover.

Phoebe, a budding poet in search of her identity, visits her sister in New York to find out how she fits into her family of storytellers.

"At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories."--Provided by OCLC.

A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.