Anansi and his wife outsmart the Sky God and win back the beloved folk tales of their people.

Speaking and listening, writing and reading, a baby’s cry or a friend’s hug. Communication is the way people share what they know and share how they feel.

Briefly introduces various types of dinosaurs, explaining how scientists find, preserve, and reassemble the giant dinosaur skeletons seen in museums.

Allard, Harry S.

The Snowball

A small snowball gets bumped by a skier and rolls down the hill growing in size and picking up people as it grows.

A five-year-old boy thinks his body is falling apart until he learns that new teeth grow and hair and teeth replace themselves.

A shipbuilder tells his daughter Dawn how he once nursed a Canada goose with a broken wing and how soon thereafter the young who would become his wife and Dawn's mother came to help him make sails.

The strawberry snatcher tries to wrest the strawberries from the gray lady but as he follows her through shops and woods he finds blackberries instead.

In this ancient folktale, a restaurant owner gives a penniless stranger a meal. Afterward, the grateful man picks up a table napkin and makes it into a magic paper crane with which he pays for his supper.

With a little courage and a lot of practice Little Rat overcomes her fear of sailing.

The further adventures of Maxi, the dog, who rides with Jim in his taxi and becomes a hero when he chases and catches a thief.

In the town of Chewandswallow, no one ever has to go food shopping because their meals materialize from the sky.

Seven interconnected tales of friendship originally told around a fireside to children of the Hopi Indian community of Northern Arizona.

Four people enter a park, and through their eyes readers see four different visions. As the story moves from the bossy woman to the sad man, from the lonely boy to the young girl whose warmth touches all she meets, the perspectives are reflected in the parkÕs shifting landscapes and changing seasons.

A collection of folktales told with humor and a rhythmic, poetic use of language.

When Francisco, a young Mexican-American boy tries to help his grandfather find work, he discovers that even though the old man cannot speak English he has something even more valuable to teach Francisco.

A father and his young son come to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to find the name of the grandfather the boy never knew.

Relieved to be home after a long Christmas Eve, Santa tucks his reindeer into bed, heads for his own pillow, and then discovers that heÕs forgotten to deliver the one present that poor little Harvey Slumfenburger is likely to get.

When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Ann, lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they go to a little country town where they find that one new job leads to another.

A tale about an impolite ladybug who becomes happier when she is better behaved.

An artist's drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.

A wealthy merchant loves and protects his daughter, Kung Shi Fair who falls in love with Chang, the Good, a humble fisherman.

As father and son drive into the night, they watch the sunset, talk about baseball, sing cowboy songs, and even change a flat tire before pitching camp at daybreak.

Angelina is too sick to dance well during the tryouts for the lead in the "Princess of Mouseland" ballet, but when the leading ballerina sprains her foot, Angelina is ready to prove she is still the best dancer of all.

This book shows an active city harbor, with all manner of shipping vessels, ocean liners, and tugboats.

Children taking a shortcut by walking along a railroad track find excitement and danger when a train approaches.

The cows find an old typewriter in the barn and to Farmer Brown's fury they type messages to him.

Aunt Eater loves to read mysteries, and never goes anywhere with out a few of them in her bag. Sometimes this causes her to get carried away, but sometimes her reading pays off and she solves a mystery of her own.

Fin M'Coul's wife, Oonagh, helps him outwit his archrival Cucullin.

At the annual celebration of Las Posadas in old Santa Fe the husband and wife slated to play Mary and Joseph are delayed by car trouble, but a mysterious couple appears who seem perfect for the part.

Father and child do everything possible with a vegetable garden, from planting seeds to making soup.

Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life.

Harriet doesn't mean to be pesky. Sometimes she just is. And her mother doesn't mean to lose her temper. Sometimes she just does. But Harriet and her mother know that even when they do things they wish they hadn't, they still love each other very much.

The author retells this folktale of a man who learned to take advice from his cat in a clear text and bright, uncluttered illustrations.

A modern fairy tale in which an eccentric and lonely man, with a passion for hats, finds true love when he least expects it.

A boy, his father and a crowded department store provide the setting for a familiar theme: Lost!

After working hard to take care of his 10 children, a devoted father plans to get away by himselfÑuntil he decides that something is missing.

Lily loves everything about school especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is sorry later.

A delightful look at all the warm, delicious things that make up a cozy day.

A House Is a House for Me

Lists in rhyme the dwellings of various animals and things.

When an orchestra conductor misplaces his baton and feels he cannot work without it, he learns that it is his own talents, not a little stick, that make him famous.

Three young mice do everything together and know they will be friends forever until one day Horace and Morris become part of an exclusive boys' club and Dolores finds herself left out.

A little girl contemplates the relationships among the five members of her family (three humans and two cats).

A little boy named George wakes up one morning to find that he is the size of a mouse. He finds that everyday tasks pose some unusual challenges when one is not full size.

Mother Possum is trying to teach her child to play dead, but Joe can't stop giggling.

On a rainy day two brothers try to discover who is playing the harmonica they hear in their apartment building.

When his parents send him to a Minnesota logging camp to escape the influenza epidemic of 1918, ten-year-old Marven finds a special friend.

Cornelius, a crocodile who walks upright, sees things no crocodile has ever seen before.

Challenging youngsters to look closely at the most ordinary objects, this book teaches them to discover the extraordinary beauty and majesty of each.

Practical jokers Sped and Joe get away with every trick in the book until the day they meet a little girl named Mary Frances Hooley.

Charlotte does not like dolls, until she receives a special doll from her aunt and they become good friends.

A family of mallard ducks walks through Boston's streets to the pond.

Medearis, Angela Shelf

In this West African folktale, a farmer is taken aback when first a yam and then a dog talk to him.

The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends, in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday.

When the eldest son fell into a well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.

A farmer's young daughter shared numerous adventures with the dragon that she raises from infancy.

Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests.

Junie B. thinks first grade is a flop when her kindergarten friend Lucille prefers the company of Camille and Chenille and Junie B. needs glasses.

Henry enjoys the heroic exploits of comic hero Falconman, whose superpowers are bestowed on him by a falcon. So when a little bird gifts Henry similarly, he's soon saving the neighborhood from bullies, menacing dogs and more.

The frightening tale of Tom Kitten kidnapped by some very aggressive rats who plan to make him into a pudding.

The author visually depicts saxophone great John Coltrane's jazz classic, "Giant Steps."

A girl reflects on the Christmas at her grandparents home in the country, with its fresh cut tree, handmade ornaments, gifts from Santa, and special church services.

When the wind blows so hard that it blows the quack right out of the duck, the oink out of the pig, and so on, Bonnie Bumble works hard to get each animal's sound back where it belongs.

Ida is supposed to be watching her baby sister but her attention lapses and the baby is kidnapped by goblins. Ida must find a way to rescue her.

A little boy's imagination transforms an ordinary horse and wagon into an increasingly outrageous parade of rajahs, elephants, brass bands, and magicians.

A little boy imaginatively explains why he would rather not move from New Your City to "out West."

Nate is a nine-year-old, pancake eating detective who solves neighborhood mysteries with the help of his faithful dog, Sludge.

Gregory, the goat, is a terrible eater. His parents try to give him well-balanced meals of rugs, old shoes, boxes, and bottle caps, but Gregory refuses to eat, stating he would prefer some fruits, vegetables, eggs, and fish.

A collection of poems ranging from serious to silly expressing the fears, wishes, and joys of children.

An impulsive wish on a magic pebble seems to change Sylvester, the donkey's, life forever.

Reminiscent of Cinderella, this is the world-renowned African tale of two sisters and their father, who would like one of them to become the king's bride.

New York City and the Metropolitan Museum of Art provide the setting for a crazy collision of art and city life in this picture book about a little girlÕs trip to the museum and the parallel journey of her runaway yellow balloon.

On the first day of school, Emily's teacher, Miss Cribbage, tells the class that they will make a new number friend every day for the first 100 days of school.

A collection of twenty-six short poems pondering what the world would be like if any of the letters of the alphabet should disappear.

A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long yellow hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress.