Gail E. Haley

Many African stories are called "Spider stories". This book is about how that came to be. And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky god. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky and went to bargain with the Sky god. The price the Sky god asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet who-stings-like-fire...

Boy finds his wild brother under the surface of the river and pulls him out onto land, where Wild Boy begins to lead him astray into trouble.

Recaptures the incident during the American Revolution when JackJouett rode to warn Thomas Jefferson and others of the coming of Tarleton's raiders.

A cunning cat wins for his master a castle, a fortune, and the hand of a princess.

A rich, arrogant youth's enforced stay in the forest changes hisonce selfish life into a useful, generous, and satisfying one.Based on the legend of "The Green Man."

A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk where he uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant and make his fortune.

The letters of the alphabet race each other up the coconut tree. In a house filled with two parents, one girl, and two cats, counting has never been so much fun. Librarian Molly McGrew introduces a zoo full of animals to reading and they go simply wild about books. To avoid getting eaten, a resourceful inchworm must figure out how to measure a nightingale's song.