Wiesner, William

Halloween stories and poems.

Halloween stories and poems.

When the proud and insolent people of Babel built a tower to reach into heaven, God confused the languages of mankind and divided one people into many nations.

Jack climbs the great beanstalk that grows from his magic seeds and meets a giant at the top.

When the proud and insolent people of Babel built a tower to reach into heaven, God confused the languages of mankind and divided one people into many nations.

Jack climbs the great beanstalk that grows from his magic seeds and meets a giant at the top. Jack and the Beanstalk.

Left in the woods by their stepmother, two children come upon the gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch. Includes instructions for staging the story as a shadow puppet show.

When the farmer returns from market with nothing to show for the cow he was to have sold, he bets his neighbor twenty crowns that his wife won't be angry.

When the farmer returns from market with nothing to show for the cow he was to have sold, he bets his neighbor twenty crowns that his wife won't be angry.

The body of a presumably dead hunchback musician is palmed off in succession to a variety of people all of whom think they have murdered him.