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Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The king challenges the animals in his kingdom to prove their wisdom by making him a robe of smoke, but only the tortoise is able to satisfy him.
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
c1988.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[34] pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Clever Tom Fitzpatrick thinks his fortune is made when he captures a leprechaun and forces him to reveal the hiding place of his gold, but the leprechaun is clever too.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains of rice when a selfish raja is outwitted by a clever village girl.
67) Tanglewood Tales
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally published in 1853, author Nathaniel Hawthorne delivers a vibrant selection of mythological tales inspired by some of the most popular figures in Greek lore. Tanglewood Tales is filled with whimsical characters and their fantastical stories.
Nathaniel Hawthorne brings Ancient Greek mythology to life in this collection of Tanglewood Tales. The author reinterprets the stories for a younger audience with a broad appeal. The book contains heroes...
68) Noche antigua
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[VOX edition].
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Noche antigua combina varios relatos de la tradición oral, como el del conejo y el tlacuache, así como una rivalidad inventada entre ambos que sirve para contar lo que sucede en la noche, tras la milpa: las andanzas de un afanoso conejo y un audaz tlacuache que van y vienen por el campo provocando que la luna cambie de apariencia y que la noche se transforme en día. Este álbum silente está inspirado en el complejo y monumental pensamiento mesoamericano...
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Colorfully illustrated retelling of Aesop's fable in which an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle.
72) Little by little
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the Aesop fable The crow and the pitcher, in which a clever crow figures out how to get a drink of water when another crow has given up.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1982.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of a traditional Arabic tale in which a young woman disguises herself as a man and opens up a shop in a distant city in order to help her impoverished family. Her disguise causes her many complications but she eventually succeeds in redeeming the family fortunes and finding her true love.
74) The race
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A modern rhyme retells the events of the famous race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press Choice
Pub. Date
1985, c1983.
Edition
School and library edition.
Physical Desc
125 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine of the tales told by Shaharazad to enchant the cruel sultan and stop him from executing her as he had his other daily wives.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1993.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A small but clever hare and a fierce leopard agree to share a house, but as the hare's family grows, he realizes that he must find a way to get rid of his bad-tempered neighbor.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Lucida is unable to finish her gift for the Baby Jesus in time for the Christmas procession, a miracle enables her to offer the beautiful flower we now call the poinsettia.
80) The snow child
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An elderly couple who long for a child build a snow child which comes to life and makes them very happy--until the coming of spring when the days become too warm for her to stay.
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