Who will the king choose?Award-winning artist John Steptoe’s rich cultural imagery of Africa earned him the Coretta Scott King Award for Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters. The book also went on to win the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. This stunning story is a timeless treasure that readers will enjoy for generations.Coretta Scott King Award for IllustrationCaledcott HonorReading Rainbow BookBoston Globe-Horn Book

    Jacky Rowan didn't believe in trolls and goblins, but she has been marked for destruction--and sent on a quest that only a fool would dare take in order to save both the human and the Faerie worlds from a nightmarish demise.

    A color-illustrated collection of fairy tales from all over the world.

    Jan Brett's lavish illustrations for this classic tale, full of details and surprises, gives this edition a special flair. Children will marvel at the enchanted world created herein.

    Candace finds herself cast out of her home by jealous older sisters, but with the help of a witch woman and a magical moss gown, she captures the heart of the young plantation owner.

    A haunting tale celebrating the power of love and the human spirit. Full-color illustrations.

    His power could only be matched by the witch-girl Chingis. Out of the frozen wastes she studied the words and runes that would give her power to understand the messages of the ghost drum. At last she heard Safa's cries...This book was awarded the 1987 Library Association's Carnegie Medal.

    Each introduced by a short paragraph addressing the perennial question "Where do you get your ideas?".The Porcelain Man Come Again In The SpringThe Parrot and the ThiefThe Wreck of the Linda DearThe Blue StoneThe Leprechaun's StoryThe Contests at CowlickSong of the HorseThe Rise and Fall of Ben GizzardThe Dark PrincessCrazy in LoveThe Lost Kingdom of KarnicaOliver Hyde's Dishcloth ConcertThe Mouse GodInside My Feet: the story of a giant.

    

    Owens, ed. Presents all 215 stories recorded by the Brothers Grimm, many not available elsewhere, illustrated by renowned artists. Includes such timeless favorites as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Frog Prince. A delight for young and old alike. 100 b&w illustrations. 704 pages.

    A young man who loves to dance is captured by the goblins beneath the hill and must challenge them to a dance contest in order to escape.

    When the old man searches for it to apologize, he is given great treasure. But when his wife decides that she too wants presents, she gets just what she deserves. Full-color illustrations.

    This is the story of the Norse gods and goddesses and their many adventures in the lands of men, dwarfs, and gaints.

    

    Hoffman, The Beautiful Kitchen Maid by Miguel de Cervantes, and The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen. 73 full-color illustrations.

    This updated and expanded second edition includes a new preface and an appendix containing new translations of six tales, along with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar skillfully employs the tools not only of a psychoanalyst but also of a folklorist, literary critic, and historian to examine the harsher aspects of these stories. She presents new interpretations of the powerful stories in this worldwide best-selling book. Few studies have been written in English on these tales, and none has probed their allegedly happy endings so thoroughly.