In this version of "The Gingerbread Man," a lonely Cajun baker's freshly baked beignet comes to life and dashes through the sights of New Orleans's French Quarter to escape being eaten.

Convinced that his work in the field is harder than his wife's work at home, a farmer trades places with her for the day.

An African folktale about a mouse who pays close attention to her surroundings and avoids being tricked by the cat.

After being caught by a hunter, a clever turtle uses her wits and her talent playing the flute to trick the hunter's children into helping her escape.

In this collection of spine-tingling tales, a woman encounters a deadly box full of eyeballs and a boy watches as a princess takes off her head.

"In this magical collection, an award-winning author and folklorist joins ranks with her daughter to celebrate the old and new ways of reading stories about mothers and daughters. Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple have selected forty folk and fairy stories from all over the world that pay tribute to mothers (good and bad) and their relations (for better or worse) with their daughters. We meet strong mothers, doting mothers, ambivalent mothers, obsessive...

Xingyin won her mother's freedom from the Celestial Emperor. But the discovery of a strange magic on the moon as the emperor tightens his grip on power forces Xingyin and her companions to venture to unexplored lands of the Immortal Realm. To rise against the evil before it destroys the worlds she has grown to love, Xingyin must uncover the truth of her hart-- even if doing so demands the greatest price of all. -- adapted from jacket

When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.

A retelling of one of the Indian fables relating to the former births of Buddha in which as a monkey he manages to outwit the crocodile who decides to capture him.

Join Jack and Annie as they research leprechauns and Irish folklore and find out the facts behind the fiction.