Stories from Around the World
Africa:
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, by John Steptoe
Anansi the Spider, by Gerald McDermott
Mabela the Clever, by Margaret Read MacDonald
For You Are a Kenyan Child, by Kelly Cunnane
Koi and the Kola Nuts: A Tale from Liberia, by Verna Aardema
Asia:
The Brave Little Parrot, by Rafe Martin
The Hunter: A Chinese Folktale, by Mary Casanova
Babushka Baba Yaga, by Patricia Polacco
Chinese Mirror, by Mirra Ginsburg
Mountains of Tibet, by Mordicai Gerstein
Caribbean/Central America:
The Secret Footprints, by Julia Alvarez
People of the Corn: A Mayan Story, by Mary-Joan Gerson
Please, Malese! A Trickster Tale from Haiti, by Amy MacDonald
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella, by Robert San Souci
La Cucaracha Martina: A Caribbean Folktale, by David Moreton
Europe:
The Faerie's Gift, by Tanya Robyn Batt
Tony's Bread, by Tomie DePaola
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Barbara Bartos-Hoppner
Bijou, Bonbon, and Beau: The Kittens Who Danced for Degas, by Joan Sweeney
Mysterious Giant of Barletta: An Italian Folktale, by Tomie De Paola
Middle East:
Something from Nothing, by Phoebe Gilman
The Rose's Smile: Farizad of the Arabian Nights, by David Kherdian
The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story, by Rebecca Hickox
North America:
Owl Eyes, by Frieda Gates
Mike Fink: A Tall Tale, by Steven Kellogg
When Birds Could talk and Bats Could Sing, by Virgina Hamilton
Feliciana Feydra LeRoux: A Cajun Tall Tale, by Tynie Thomassie
New York's Bravest, by Mary Pope Osbourne
Pacific:
The Wise Old Woman, by Yoshiko Uchida
The Eye of the Needle, by Teri Sloat
Sun Mother Wakes the World: An Australian Creation Story, by Diane Wolkstein
Painter and the Wild Swans, by Claude Clement
Basho and the Fox, by Tim Myers
South America:
Senor Cat's Romance and Other Favorite Stories from Latin America, by Lucia Gonzalez
Jabuti the Tortoise, a Trickster Tale from the Amazon, by Gerald McDermott
Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale fromt he Andes, by Barbara Knutson
Great Kapok Tree, by Lynne Cherry
Dancing Turtle: A Folktale from Brazil, by Pleasant DeSpain
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