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In this story from the Abenaki people, the Native Americans who lives in New England long ago, you’ll learn how one starving man learned to grow a new crop to feed himself.

"The well-known author retells 24 black American folk tales in sure storytelling voice: animal tales, supernatural tales, fanciful and cautionary tales, and slave tales of freedom. All are beautifully readable."--(starred) School Library Journal...

Emmy Award-winning storyteller Bobby Norfolk brings his electrifying energy to world folktales (African, Eastern European, Appalachian, and Irish traditions), to the delight of all ages. From Anansi, the African trickster, to Jack, the bumbling, lucky, persevering Everyman of traditional stories, Norfolk's characters instruct while they entertain.

A tailor and a jeweler are out hiking. It's late, they want to go home, but they hear a sound from one of the hills. Tones that get stronger and stronger, and turn into sweet music. The tailor and the jeweler follow the music and discover a group of little people. They party with them all night...

Fortellinger for tøysekopper og annet godtfolk er en samling med sju små, morsomme, eventyrlige og fantasifulle historier for barn og voksne. De sju fortellingene er: Hans Høytidelighet Hanen av Hønsegården, Påskeharen Petra som falt i hullet, Mads og det mugne gjørmemonsteret, Skogmusen, heksen og de tre ønskene, Pinnsvinet Pelle med de myke piggene, Ellen Enhjørnings første skoledag og Min mormor sier mjau.

Поучительные сказки для детей от шести до двенадцати лет. Сказка "Девять лодырей и один проворный"- о том, что тот, кто умеет и любит трудиться, получает всё, а ленивые остаются ни с чем.

Lillian is a girl of mixed Indigenous and white ancestry who is in the process of being shuffled to her seventh foster home. At school, she doesn’t fit in with the white kids and she doesn’t fit in with the Indigenous kids either. Lillian is a complex and not-always-lovable hero but she eventually finds a sense of peace and belonging from a surprising spirit that returns her to traditional ways.