This book features tumbling tigers, happy hippos, rumbling rhinos and more! These lively animals and other creatures will help youngsters to count from one to twelve with the clever cockatoos. A delightful companion to Stephanie Bauer's Alligator Alphabet, Counting Cockatoos also includes a colourful counting frieze. This enchanting collection of favorite Irish folk tales deserves to be read aloud at every hearth. Described by Malachy Doyle in captivating...

Collects six traditional stories including "Sody Saleratus, " "The globe goblin, ", and "The star thief."

Presents four classic children's folktales.

A collection of fourteen tales about the folk hero Nasreddin Hoca, also known as Goha, a man with a reputation for being able to answer difficult questions in a clever way.

Four over-the-hill spunky animals decide to start over as traveling musicians, and Koi, the son of a chief, must accomplish three impossible tasks or he will end up in the cooking pot.

A collection of twenty Chinese folk tales that were passed on by word of mouth for generations, as told by some old-timers newly settled in the United States.

"Step into the shadows and trace the history of the vampire from ancient goddesses to Edward Cullen, not to mention Dracula, with this complete guide to the world's most beloved bloodsuckers." -- Back cover.

Retelling of Celtic folktales set to music.

"The origin stories of each Chinese dish told using the framework of Chinese cuisine--oftentimes based in folklore, both ancient and contemporary"--

"The League of the Iroquois was a true representational democracy-so much so that the United States Constitution is said to have been modeled on some of its tenets. But how, perhaps a thousand years before the time of Columbus, did the Five Iroquois Nations (the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca) come to end the bitter eye-for-eye warfare among them? What brought them together in an alliance based on the Great Law of Peace? And how was...