Includes "The Headless Horseman, " "The Kindly Ghost, " and "The Leg of Gold."

    A selchie, a seal transformed into human form, lives on land with a lonely fisherman and his wife, until the day a great storm threatens the fisherman's life.

    A story, based on a tale from the Jataka, of a clever gardener who figured out a way to recover the princess' pearl necklace, stolen by a vain monkey.

    An Inca legend describing how people and animals survived the great flood that forced the sun to share the sky with the moon.

    Until one day, Mr. Greenthumb came to town with a thumb accidentally stained with green paint and a little red flower in a pot.The people of the town were positive it was only because of that green thumb that Mr. Greenthumb could grow such a wonderful miracle of a flower. And so it was that when Mr. Greenthumb fell ill and the neglected flower began to die, everyone was sure he could do nothing to help. Only Joseph, the doctor's son, was willing to try to save the flower--green thumb or no green thumb!This story by a noted children's entertainer is written with the quiet fundamental humor that brings a child back to a book time and again--a quality of humor perfectly captured in Trina Hyman's detailed illustrations.