Experience world mythology's most legendary sibling rivalries. Featuring a story of Thor and Loki (a Norse myth) and of Isis and Osiris (an Egyptian myth).
"Find out why butterflies were made in Zora Neale Hurston's African American folktale retold by . . . Ibram X. Kendi and illustrated by Kah Yangni"--Provided by publisher.
An abridged version of the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor. Includes discussion questions.
"Pedro is a shepherd who gets quite bored grazing his sheep. That's why one day it occurs to him to play a trick on his neighbors: he will invent that the wolf is going to eat the sheep. The villagers, half asleep, get up as fast as they can to help him. However, once they arrive, they realize it was a lie. Pedro laughs, but then finds himself in trouble when a wolf really does appear…"--Amazon.
"The bilingual fables in this book are selected from fables from many countries around the world. The lovely and engaging stories [for] . . . children . . . are lessons about courage, kindness ... for children to follow"--Amazon.
After showing kindness to a strange old woman, Shiraz receives the gift of beauty but her lazy and unkind stepsister, Nargues, suffers a less pleasant fate in this adaptation of the Grimm's fairy tale, Mother Hulda, reset in Tehran, Iran.
