Fiction

• Aardema, Verna
  Anansi Does the Impossible
  Simon and Schuster, 1997
  E Aar (Grades 1-3)
  Anansi and his wife outsmart the Sky God and win back the beloved folktales of their people.
• Aardema, Verna
  Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
  Dial Press, 1975
  E Aar (Grades 1-3)
  This African reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.
• Ginsburg, Mirra
  Two Greedy Bears
  MacMillan, 1976
  E Gin (Grades 1-3)
  A Hungarian folktale in which a clever fox teaches two bears a lesson about greed.
• Ginsburg, Mirra
  How the Sun Was Brought Back to the Sky
  MacMillan, 1975
  E Gin (Grades 1-3)
  When the sun doesn't shine for three days, a flock of chicks goes on a journey to coax it back into the sky.
• Kimmel, Eric
  Why Worry
  Random House, 1975
  E Kim (Grades 1-3)
  When they are snatched up by a crow, a pessimistic cricket and an optimistic grasshopper disagree about what will happen to them.
• Sierra, Judy
  The Elephant's Wrestling Match
  Dutton Books, 1992
  E Sie (Grades 1-3)
  Of all the animals challenged to beat the mighty elephant, only a tiny bat is able to defeat him in a battle of wits.
• Sloat, Teri
  The Eye of the Needle
  Dutton Books, 1990
  E Slo (Grades 1-3)
  Sent out by his grandmother to find food, Amik consumes a series of animals of ever increasing size and brings back more that he thinks.

Nonfiction

• Cohlene, Terri
  Ka-ha-si and the Loon
  Rourke, 1990
  + 398.2 Coh
  Retells the legend of Ka-ha-si, who acquired great strength and boldness and uses them to rescue his people in times of peril, included is information on the customs and lifestyle of the Eskimos.
• Diakite, Baba Wague
  The Hatseller and the Monkeys
  Scholastic Press, 1999
  + 398.2 Dia
  An African version of the familiar story of a man who sets off to sell some hats, only to have them stolen by a tree full of mischievous monkeys.
• Dominic, Gloria
  Song of the Hermit Thrush
  Rourke , 1996
  + 398.2 Dom
  The animals and birds of the forest hold a contest to choose which will sing a song to greet the day.
• Dominic, Gloria
  Coyote and the Grasshoppers
  Rourke , 1996
  + 398.2 Dom
  By listening to the great spirit and eating huge quantities of grasshoppers, Coyote is able to save the Pomo from drought and starvation.
• Sierra, Judy
  The Gift of the Crocodile
  Simon and Schuster, 2000
  + 398.2 Sie
  In this Indonesian version of the Cinderella story, a girl named Damura escapes her cruel stepmother and stepsister and marries a handsome prince with the help of Grandmother Crocodile.
• Young, Ed
  Moon Mother
  HarperCollins, 1993
  + 398.2 You
  A retelling of a traditional Native American tale in which a spirit person that made animals and people fall in love with a woman spirit person who becomes the moon is carried through the sky every night.
• Goble, Paul
  Iktomi and the Coyote
  Orchard Books, 1988
  + 398.2 Gob
  After Iktomi outsmarts some prairie dogs into becoming his dinner, he is then outsmarted by Coyote.
• Faulkner, William
  The Days when the Animals Talked
  Follett, 1977
  + 398.24 Fau
  A retelling of some famous Black American Folktales, including some which are known as the Brer Rabbit tales.
• McDermott, Gerald
  Coyote: a Trickster Tale from the American Southwest
  Harcourt Brace, 1994
  + 398.24 McD
  Coyote, who has a nose for trouble, insists that the crows teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in disaster for him.
• Mayo, Gretchen Will
  That Tricky Coyote
  Walker Publishing, 1993
  + 398.24 May
  A collection of legends about the cunning trickster Coyote taken from a variety Native American sources.
• Nixon, K.
  Animals and Birds in Folklore
  Frederick Warne., 1969
  + 398.24 Nix
  A collection of seven animal tales from around the world, including why the leopard got his spots, why the woodpecker's tail is long, why the blackbird is black and why the rabbit has long ears.
• Troughton, Joanna
  Whale's Canoe
  Peter Bedrick Books, 1993
  + 398.24 Tro
  Aborigine folktale that tells how so many beautiful and unusual animals came to the shores of Australia.

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