Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books
Age Level: 3-6 years old


A Pot o' Gold: A Treasury of Irish Stories, Poetry, Folklore and (of course) Blarney
By: Kathleen Krull
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A wide selection of Irish poems, music, stories and folktales are presented along with delicate...

All the Way to Lhasa: A Tale from Tibet
By: Barbara Berger
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
There's a saying that "slow but steady wins the race." In this richly illustrated book, the...

Anansi Goes Fishing
By: Eric Kimmel
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Anansi is a known charlatan, so he gets little sympathy when Turtle eats all of the fish that...

Andy and the Lion
By: James Daugherty
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Andy helps an escaped circus lion by removing a thorn from his paw. This simple act of kindness...

A Big Bed for Little Snow
By: Grace Lin
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
In this winter fable about where snow comes from, Little Snow, who wears snowflake pajamas, gets...

A Big Mooncake for Little Star
By: Grace Lin
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she bakes with her mama. But she's not supposed to...

A Squash and a Squeeze
By: Julia Donaldson
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A little old lady complains to a wise old man that her house is “a squash and a squeeze.” She...

A Story, A Story
By: Gail Haley
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
How did the world come to have stories? It's all because Ananse the Spider Man was able to...

Agua, Agua, Agua
By: Pat Mora
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Crow knows where to find water amid rocks and how to get it even though it's below the reach of...

Alone in the Forest
By: Bhajju Shyam , Gita Wolf
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Anansi The Spider: A Tale From the Ashanti
By: Gerald McDermott
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Have you ever wondered how the moon got where it is? According to this Ashanti tale, Nyame, the...

Ashley Bryan: Poems and Folktales
By: Ashley Bryan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Have you ever wondered why there is thunder and lightning? Hear this Nigerian folktale and other...

Ashpet: An Appalachian Tale
By: Joanne Compton
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
This distinctive Appalachian version of Cinderella creates its unique setting in jaunty language...

Beautiful Blackbird
By: Ashley Bryan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
In a story of the Ila people of Zambia, the colorful birds of Africa ask Blackbird, whom they...

Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story
By: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A long time ago, fire belonged only to the animals in the land above, not to those on the earth...

Borreguita and the Coyote
By: Verna Aardema
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Left alone to graze, Borreguita outsmarts the fierce coyote who thinks the small lamb would be a...

Brush of the Gods
By: Lenore Look
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Wu Daozi's brush created images that seemed to come alive. Travel to ancient China to meet Daozi...

Burro's Tortillas
By: Terri Fields
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
In this humorous Southwestern retelling of "The Little Red Hen," Burro finds it difficult to get...

Busy-Busy Little Chick
By: Janice Harrington Janice Harrington
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Can You See What I See? Once Upon a Time
By: Walter Wick
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Visit places and meet the characters who lived "once upon a time" during a dramatic moment from...

Cinderelephant
By: Emma Dodd
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Cinderelephant lives wither cousins, the Warty Sisters, who are real pigs (actually, warthogs)....

Coyote and the Sky: How the Sun, Moon, and Stars Began
By: Emmett Garcia
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
According to Santa Ana Pueblo legend, the animals' spirit Leader created the sun, moon, and...

Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest
By: Gerald McDermott
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Coyote wanted to fly like the crows, so they humored him by making him feathers and teaching him...

Cuckoo: A Mexican Folktale / Cucu: Un cuento folklorico mexicano
By: Lois Ehlert
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Lazy Cuckoo has a beautiful singing voice and brightly colored feathers — until he loses them...

Doña Flor
By: Pat Mora
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A charming tall tale set in the American Southwest. Doña Flor, a giant, is a benevolent presence...

Feathers for Peacock
By: Jacqueline Jules
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
An pourquoi story that blends folktale motifs from around the world to explain why the peacock...

Flossie and the Fox
By: Patricia McKissack
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Flossie and the Fox is an African American variant of the tale, "Little Red Riding Hood....

Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night
By: Peter Spier
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
In this traditional folk song set to pictures, a fox cheerfully poaches the farmer's geese....

Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
By: Mo Willems
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
The author turns the familiar tale around in this funny take-off. Here, Goldilocks goes to the...

Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Hatseller and the Monkeys
By: Baba Diakite
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
BaMusa takes a break from selling his hats — only to have them stolen by mischievous monkeys....

Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia
By: Won-Ldy Paye, Margaret Lippert
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A head by itself can’t do much – until he meets arms, body, and legs. Bold colors and broad...

How Chipmunk Got His Stripes
By: James Bruchac, Joseph Bruchac
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Interrupting Chicken
By: David Ezra Stein
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Though she promises she won't interrupt, a little red chicken inserts herself into the fairy...

Jabuti the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon
By: Gerald McDermott
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Vulture is sick and tired of Jabuti’s trickery. He gets his revenge when he flies the tortoise...

Jack and the Beanstalk
By: Nina Crews
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
The traditional tale of a boy who planted magic beans is reimagined as a city story of a spell...

John Henry
By: Julius Lester
Age Level: 3-6 years old
John Henry's talent was evident at an early age when he helped his daddy, but was cemented...

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
By: Simms Taback
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction

Jump! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
By: Van Dyke Parks, Malcolm Jones
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Brer Rabbit is the quintessential American trickster. Early versions, first collected by Joel...

Kumak's River: A Tale from the Far North
By: Michael Bania
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Spring comes to a remote Alaskan village, and the ice on the frozen river cracks and breaks and...

Kumak’s Fish: A Tall Tale from the Far North
By: Michael Bania
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
When Kumak snags a fish — a really big fish — it takes the entire village to bring it in. This...

La Princesa and the Pea
By: Susan Middleton Elya
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
El príncipe knows this girl is the one for him, but, as usual, his mother doesn’t agree. The...

Lady Hahn and Her Seven Friends
By: Yumi Heo
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Long ago, Lady Hahn sewed with the help of her seven friends — needle, thimble, etc. — until...

Little Red Cowboy Hat
By: Susan Lowell
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Little Red Riding Hood gets a Wild West twist in a funny version of the familiar tale. On her...

Little Red Hen
By: Jerry Pinkney
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
When an industrious red hen finds seeds, the other animals refuse to help her plant them. But...

Little Red Riding Hood
By: Jerry Pinkney
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
When the girl in the red cape goes to visit her grandmother who lives on the other side of the...

Little Red Riding Hood: A Newfangled Prairie Tale
By: Lisa Campbell Ernst
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Red's feisty grandmother enlists the wolf as her assistant muffin maker in this contemporary...

Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria
By: Aaron Shephard
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Even the strongest man of all can be outmatched, as Shadusa learns. This retelling of a Nigerian...

Medio Pollito / Half-Chicken
By: Alma Flor Ada
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Do you know why a weather vane has a little rooster on the top, spinning around to tell us which...

Monkey: A Trickster from India
By: Gerald McDermott
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Monkey is quick-witted and so ably outsmarts dull crocodile in this simply told, lushly...

Moon Rope/Un lazo a la luna
By: Lois Ehlert
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Look at the moon and what do you see? Could it be Fox? Fox convinced Mole to accompany him to...

Moonstruck: The True Story of the Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon
By: Gennifer Choldenko
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Read the back story of why — and how — the cow who jumped over the moon (made famous in the...

Mousetropolis
By: R. Gregory Christie
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Contemporary language distinguish this retelling of a traditional fable. Two mice visit each...

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
By: John Steptoe
Age Level: 3-6 years old
While both are beautiful, only one of Mufaro's daughters can marry the prince. The impact...

New York's Bravest
By: Mary Pope Osborne
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
When others ran from trouble, eight foot tall Mose Humphreys ran toward it as an extraordinary...

Paco and the Giant Chile Plant
By: Keith Polette
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
The Southwestern desert is the setting for this humorous variation on the classic fairy tale "...

Paul Bunyan
By: Steven Kellogg
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction

Pecos Bill: A Tall Tale
By: Steven Kellogg
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Pirate vs. Pirate
By: Mary Quattlebaum
Age Level: 3-6 years old
When Bad Bart who was the "biggest, burliest pirate this side of the Atlantic" meets...

Prairie Chicken Little
By: Jackie Mims Hopkins
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett
By: Steven Kellogg
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
In this tall tale, you'll meet Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, a heroine generously endowed...

Shrek!
By: William Steig
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Ugly ogre parents make an even uglier ogre son named Shrek. Of course Shrek seeks (on the back...

Strega Nona
By: Tomie dePaola
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Big Anthony is large in size and curiosity but short on self-control. When Strega Nona, "grandma...

Sungura and Leopard: A Swahili Trickster Tale
By: Barbara Knutson
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Sungura, a resourceful hare, and grouchy Leopard decide to build their homes in the same spot....

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
By: William Steig
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Sylvester is transformed into a rock by a magic pebble and remains that way until he encounters...

Tasty Baby Belly Buttons
By: Judy Sierra
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Uriko is small but brave, determined, and smart. In fact, she saves the town’s children when...

That's What Leprechauns Do
By: Eve Bunting
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Three leprechauns can't help but create a bit of mischief on their way to place their pot of...

The Banza: A Haitian Story
By: Diane Wolkstein
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Vivid colors depict the Haitian setting for a tale in which a goat uses the banza, a banjo,...

The Bossy Gallito: A Traditional Cuban Folktale / Bossy Gallito: El gallo de bodas:
By: Lucía González
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Travel with Bossy Rooster to his uncle's wedding. Of course the road is not entirely smooth in...

The Crocodile and the Scorpion
By: Rebecca Emberley
Age Level: 3-6 years old

The First Tortilla: A Bilingual Story
By: Rudolfo Anaya
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Based on an ancient Mexican legend, this story introduces young readers to the importance of...

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
By: Paul Goble
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
The girl who tended horses loved them so much that she joined them, literally! The carefully...

The Jack Tales
By: Richard Chase
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Read about Jack and the famous beanstalk, how Jack stopped folk from dying, and more — all with...

The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters
By: Allan Ahlberg
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Join a chubby cheeked mail carrier as he delivers letters to well known characters from...

The Legend of the Poinsettia
By: Tomie dePaola
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
In this retelling of a beloved Mexican folktale, Tomie dePaola presents Lucinda, a young girl...

The Leprechaun's Gold
By: Pamela Duncan Edwards
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Old Pat is on his way to a contest that will name the finest harpist in all of Ireland. On the...

The Lion and the Mouse
By: Jerry Pinkney
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The well-known fable about how the smallest creature — a mouse — saves the majestic lion is a...

The Little Red Hen
By: Paul Galdone
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Ever-popular tellings of familiar folktales have become modern classics and are again available...

The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale
By: Jan Brett
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
The cumulative tale of a child's lost mitten — but found to become home to a host of animals —...

The Most Amazing Bird
By: Michael Arvaaluk Kusugak
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A young girl discovers nature’s surprising beauty in this tale from a renowned Inuk storyteller...

The Polar Bear Son: An Inuit Tale
By: Lydia Dabcovich
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
An old Inuit woman takes in a polar bear cub and raises him until others in the village become...

The Runaway Piggy
By: James Luna
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
In the classic tradition of "The Gingerbread Man," these piggy cookie leaps off the baking tray...

The Seven Chinese Sisters
By: Kathy Tucker
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Sisters each use their special talent while working together to save the sister who was snatched...

The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote
By: Tony Johnston
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Coyote howls at the moon because of a small, smart, and very tricky rabbit. This lively...

The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
By: Katherine Paterson
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A beautiful mandarin duck is captured and caged by a greedy lord who wants to show off the bird'...

The Tale of Tricky Fox
By: Jim Aylsworth
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
After making a bet with his brother that he can outsmart a human into giving him one of her pigs...

The Teeny-Tiny Woman
By: Paul Galdone
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
How could the teeny-tiny bone found by the teeny-tiny woman make such an un-teeny-tiny noise...

The Three Bears
By: Paul Galdone
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Ever-popular tellings of familiar folktales have become modern classics and are again available...

The Three Billy Goats Gruff
By: Jerry Pinkney
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Three goat brothers attempt to get to a grassy hillside by crossing a bridge under which lives a...

The Three Little Javelinas
By: Susan Lowell
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
In this retelling of The Three Little Pigs set in the American Southwest, we meet the three...

The Three Little Pigs
By: Paul Galdone
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Ever-popular tellings of familiar folktales have become modern classics and are again available...

The Three Little Pigs
By: James Marshall
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
From huffing and puffing to "chinny-chin-chin" hair, this retelling of the familiar folktale...

The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf
By: Mark Teague
Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Three Pigs
By: Steven Kellogg
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Elements of the traditional story are here (houses of brick, straw and sticks) but made fresh...

The Tomten
By: Astrid Lindgren
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
From Swedish folklore comes the story of the tomten, a little gnome who watches over us while we...

The Tortoise and the Hare
By: Jerry Pinkney
Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Whingdingdilly
By: Bill Peet
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Ole Scamp learns to like himself better once he’s changed by a peculiar witch. This wacky story...

Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World
By: Selby Beeler
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Lighthearted illustrations provide just the right tone for brief looks at what happens when...

Tico and the Golden Wings
By: Leo Lionni
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A classic fable encouraging generosity and individuality. All Tico the wingless bird wants is a...

Tiger and Turtle
By: James Rumford
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
In this modern fable, Turtle and Tiger became friends only after they argued and fought over who...

Tikki Tikki Tembo
By: Arlene Mosel
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo is the full name of the firstborn...

Toad Is the Uncle of Heaven: A Vietnamese Folktale
By: Jeanne Lee
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
The small toad, with the help of other animals, gets the attention of the Emperor of Heaven to...

Too Much Noise
By: Ann McGovern
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Peter thinks his house is too noisy. The bed creaks, the floors squeak — it's no wonder he's...

Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur!: A Palestinian Tale
By: Margaret Read MacDonald
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
There was once a woman who had a little pot for a child. Unfortunately the pot wasn’t old enough...

Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales
By: Julius Lester
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
One of the most well known of African American folktales are the Uncle Remus tales, originally...

We Are Water Protectors
By: Carole Lindstrom
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
An Ojibwe girl confronts a grave situation by channeling age-old wisdom. The “black snake” of an...

What's the Hurry Fox? And Other Animal Tales
By: Zora Neale Hurston
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Folktales and trickster stories collected in the 1930s have been adapted, retold, and freshly...

When Turtle Grew Feathers: A Tale from the Choctaw Nation
By: Tim Tingle
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Maybe you think you know the story of the big race between Rabbit and Turtle. Think again! In...

Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China
By: Ai-Ling Louie
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Yours Truly, Goldilocks
By: Alma Flor Ada
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
What happens when the well known three pigs try to plan a party? Readers will find out as they...

Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale from West Africa
By: Gerald McDermott
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
To gain wisdom, Zomo, the small black rabbit, successfully accomplishes a series of impossible...
Age Level: 6-9 years old


Animal Crackers Fly the Coop
By: Kevin O'Malley
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Like the familiar Bremen Town musicians, this quartet foils a group of robbers and opens their...

Clever Jack Takes the Cake
By: Candace Fleming
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Jack is invited to the princess' birthday party but is too poor to buy a worthy gift so instead...

A Gift of Gracias: The Legend of Altagracia
By: Julia Alvarez
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
After Papa warns the family that they may have to abandon their failing olive farm, young Maria...

A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa
By: Virginia Hamilton
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A collection of trickster stories — from the Brer Rabbit found in the American South to East...

Abiyoyo
By: Pete Seeger
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A lttle boy and his magician father lull a hungry giant to sleep with their ukelele and makethe...

Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story
By: Tomie dePaola
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Adelita’s stepmother and stepsisters relegate her to kitchen duties after her father dies - and...

Aesop's Fables
By: Jerry Pinkney
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Almost 100 fables attributed to Aesop have been selected and illustrated in this oversized...

American Tall Tales
By: Mary Pope Osborne
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Meet heroes (and heroines) in these well-told tales of fictitious and actual characters from...

An Illustrated Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
By: Hans Christian Andersen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Tales translated into English from Danish author Hans Christian Andersen have become part of the...

Ashley Bryan's African Tales, Uh-huh
By: Ashley Bryan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Tales drawn from the oral tradition are retold with verve and musical language certain to...

Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
By: Marianna Mayer
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
In this Russian fairy tale, kind and beautiful Vasilisa lives with her cruel stepmother and...

Banjo Granny
By: Sarah Martin Busse, Jacqueline Martin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Owen’s singing, banjo-playing Granny goes out “to cross one river, one mountain, and a desert”...

Between Earth and Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places
By: Joseph Bruchac
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Bruchac frames 11 legends of Native American sacred places with a conversation between Little...

Boy of the Three Year Nap
By: Dianne Snyder
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A spritely retelling of a traditional trickster tale. Though Taro is known for his laziness, he...

Brave Wolf and the Thunderbird
By: Joseph Medicine Crow
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
In this traditional Crow story, a monster climbs out of the lake and up the cliff to steal the...

Bremen Town Musician
By: Jacob Grimm
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This is the classic tale of four beleaguered animals—a donkey who can no longer work, a hound...

Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella
By: Robert D. San Souci
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Adapted from a traditional Creole story, this fresh retelling, told from the perspective of the...

Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam
By: Sherry Garland
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Learn why the tiger has stripes, what happens to those who behave badly, and much more in this...

Chukfi Rabbit's Big, Bad Bellyache: A Trickster Tale
By: Greg Rodgers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Deep in Choctaw Country, Chukfi Rabbit is always figuring out some way to avoid work at all...

Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend and Tall Tale
By: Robert San Souci
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
From the Northeast to the West, the United States is filled with stories of wise, strong, and...

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
By: Ingri Parin d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Davy Crockett Saves the World
By: Rosalyn Schanzer
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Dust Devil
By: Anne Isaacs
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Angelica Longrider, the "wildest wildcat in Tennessee" and larger than life (first introduced in...

Encyclopedia Mythologica: Gods and Heroes Pop-Up
By: Matthew Reinhart, Robert Sabuda
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Six beautifully illustrated full-page spreads, each including a dramatic paper-sculpture...

Fables
By: Arnold Lobel
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Fables are short tales of animals with an explicit (though gentle) moral. Lobel has written...

Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists
By: Chris Duffy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Aficionados of comic books will appreciate these fresh interpretations of fairy tales. Seventeen...

Fin M'Coul: The Giant of Knockmany Hill
By: Tomie dePaola
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A humorous retelling of the traditional Irish tale of how Ireland’s Fin M’coul – with the help...

Fly, Eagle, Fly: An African Tale
By: Christopher Gregorowski
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
After a stormy night, a farmer, searching for his lost calf, finds a baby eagle that has been...

Folktales From Turkey: From Agri to Zelve
By: Serpil Ural, Arin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
26 folk tales from Turkey cast a keen light on the rich multicultural heritage of Anatolia. Also...

Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems
By: Marilyn Singer
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry
A second book of fairy tale themed reversos – a poetic form in which the poem is presented...

Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella
By: Paul Fleischman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Cinderella stories are found around the world; here, they have been fused into one tale with...

Hansel and Gretel
By: Bethan Woollvin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Meet Hansel and Gretel in a fresh retelling of the classic fairy tale. Here Willow the witch is...

Hansel and Gretel
By: Rachel Isadora
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A richly colorful new interpretation of this classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, setting the...

Heckedy Peg
By: Audrey Wood
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A mother warns her seven children not to open the door in her absence, but alas, the children...

Her Seven Brothers
By: Paul Goble
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A retelling of the Cheyenne legend about the creation of the Big Dipper. A young Indian girl who...

Horse Hooves and Chicken Feet: Mexican Folktales
By: Neil Philip
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This collection of 15 folktales draws on the rich storytelling tradition of Mexico's people and...

How Rabbit Tricked Otter and Other Cherokee Trickster Stories
By: Gayle Ross
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This collection of 15 Cherokee tales introduces the trickster-hero Rabbit, the most important...

How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable
By: Barbara J. Atwater
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Chulyen the trickster raven loses his nose one day, but he vows to get it back. Luckily he has...

How Raven Stole the Sun
By: Maria Williams
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A retelling of a Tlingit tale — the story of how the Raven transformed himself into a bird "...

How the Stars Fell into the Sky
By: Jerrie Oughton
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Richly hued illustrations are used to show how First Woman tried to guide humans by providing...

I Am Tama, Lucky Cat: A Japanese Legend
By: Wendy Henrichs
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A cat befriends a monk and brings good fortune to his rundown temple in this handsomely...

Issun Boshi: The One-Inch Boy
By: Raphael Icinori
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A farmer and his wife longed for a child and miraculously got one who they named Issum Boshi,...

It's All Greek to Me
By: Jon Scieszka
Age Level: 6-9 years old
In this installment of friends known as the Time Warp Trio, Joe, Fred, and Sam meet key figures...

Jangles: A Big Fish Story
By: David Shannon
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Jangles is the fish of legendary proportion. He's evaded everything from special lures to...

Jason and the Argonauts: The First Great Quest in Greek Mythology
By: Robert Byrd
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
There is just no pleasing all of the ancient Greek gods. When Jason gathers 50 men on a quest to...

Joha Makes a Wish: A Middle Eastern Tale
By: Eric A. Kimmel
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
While traveling to Bagdad, Joha discovers a wishing stick, but it doesn't work the way Joha...

John Henry: An American Legend
By: Ezra Jack Keats
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
John Henry was born to be a hero – strong, competitive and determined. The legendary steel-...

Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book
By: Yuyi Morales
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This original trickster tale, featuring featuring Señor Calavera and Grandma Beetle, is a...

Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book
By: Yuyi Morales
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Señor Calavera is back in this new original trickster tale about a Día de los Muertos skeleton...

Just So Stories
By: Rudyard Kipling
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
The classic collection of gloriously fanciful tales of how things in the world came to be as...

Kissimmee Pete and the Hurricane
By: Jan Day
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction

Knock on Wood: Poems about Superstitions
By: Janet Wong
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea
By: Anne O'Brien
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
In this retelling of a Korean legend, the son of a powerful minister and a servant is scorned by...

Lies and Other Tall Tales
By: Zora Neale Hurston
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Can a lie be so good that you don't want to know the truth? Well, you may think so as you...

Little Red
By: Bethan Woollvin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Little Red is one tough cookie. When a menacing wolf blocks the path to her grandmother's house...

Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
By: Ed Young
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Striking illustrations highlight the drama of this Chinese version of Red Riding Hood. Instead...

Lotus and Feather
By: Ji-li Jiang
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Inspired by the true story of a crane that rescued a Chinese village. One day, when a village...

Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains
By: Barbara Knutson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Cuy, a clever, fast-talking guinea pig, outsmarts Tío Antonio, a hungry fox, in this lively...

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
By: Carmen Agra Deedy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A sweet retelling of the Cuban folktale, full of puns and a sprinkling of Spanish. When it is...

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse
By: Marilyn Singer
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Everyone knows that there are two sides to every story. Read a cleverly illustrated poem one way...

Miz Berlin Walks
By: Jane Yolen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Miz Berlin tells wonderful stories about how she caught crawdaddies the day the sky rained...

Monsters: A Magic Lens Hunt for Creatures of Myth, Legend, Fairy Tale, and Fiction
By: Celine Potard
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Monsters are found around the world, in folktales and other stories. With a red cellophane lens...

Mountain Men: True Grit and Tall Tales
By: Andrew Glass
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
The lives of real people inspire these tales, retold here with humor and colorful language.The...

Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon
By: Carl Sandburg
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
One of Sandburg's original, quintessentially American tales for children (from Rootabaga Stories...

Ol' Clip-Clop: A Ghost Story
By: Patricia McKissack
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Once Upon a Time: Traditional Latin American Tales / Habia una vez: Cuentos tradicionales Latino Americanos
By: Reuben Martinez
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction

Once Upon a Timeless Tale Collection
By: Miriam Margolyes
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Familiar tales such as "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Princess and the Pea" have been...

Out of the Egg
By: Tina Matthews
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This reworked version of the traditional tale of the hardworking Little Red Hen continues until...

Pandora
By: Robert Burleigh
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Elegant illustrations decorate this free verse retelling of the young woman whose curiosity...

Pattan's Pumpkin: A Traditional Flood Story from Southern India
By: Chitra Soundar
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
In this retelling of the flood myth, young Pattan's amazing pumpkin grows big enough to save the...

Peach Boy And Other Japanese Children's Favorite Stories
By: Florence Sakade
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Welcome to a fantastic world populated by magical teakettles, long-nosed goblins, brave warriors...

Please, Malese! A Trickster Tale from Haiti
By: Amy MacDonald
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters and Other Wily Characters
By: Patricia McKissack
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Inspired by stories she heard as a child, the author presents original tales steeped in oral...

Previously
By: Allan Ahlberg
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
We all know that Goldilocks met the three bears, but what did she do before? Well, she met a boy...

Princess and the Peas
By: Rachel Himes
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
John’s mother thought cooking was more important than beauty in this gently humorous riff on a...

Princess Tales Around the World
By: Grace Maccarone
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Retellings in verse present a host of memorable females in traditional stories from around the...

Princess Tales: Once Upon a Time in Rhyme with Seek-and-Find Pictures
By: Grace Maccarone
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Pushing up the Sky: Seven Native American Plays for Children
By: Joseph Bruchac
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Adaptations of seven traditional tales into plays for children, representing tribes from Bruchac...

Rabbit and the Well
By: Deborah L. Duvall
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Ji-Stu the Rabbit thinks he's very clever but discovers he has outsmarted himself, in this...

Rabbit Ears Treasury of World Tales: Volume Two
By: Rabbit Ears
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Listen in to these two classic tales — about princes and princesses — read with character and...

Rain Player
By: David Wisniewski
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
The ancient Mayan belief that the future was divinely decreed and could not be changed is the...

Rapunzel
By: Bethan Woollvin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Slyly humorous and boldly illustrated, the girl with the long locks is no match for the witch...

Rapunzel
By: Brothers Grimm, Barbara Rogasky
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
In this traditional, sophisticated retelling of the Grimm tale, Rapunzel was taken from her...

Rapunzel
By: Rachel Isadora
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Gorgeous collages breathe new life into this classic tale, capturing Rapunzel's striking beauty...

Riding a Donkey Backwards: Wise and Foolish Tales of Mulla Nasruddin
By: Sean Taylor Khayaal Theater Company
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Would you like to know how a thief can turn into a donkey? Or why you should spoon yogurt into a...

Roadrunner's Dance
By: Rudolfo Anaya
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Snake terrifies children and their parents. He claims to be the "king of the road."...

Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
By: Robert San Souci
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Realistic illustrations and a straightforward retelling of one episode of the legendary Robin...

Romulus and Remus
By: Anne Rockwell
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This retelling of the story of Romulus and Remus tells of their early separation from their...

Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John "Appleseed" Chapman
By: Esme Raji Codell
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, changed his world "seed by seed, deed by deed"...

Señor Cat's Romance and Other Favorite Stories from Latin America
By: Lucía González
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Spanish words add flavor to these appealing folktales, cuentos favoritos, carefully illustrated...

Sister Tricksters: Rollicking Tales of Clever Females
By: Robert San Souci
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Why does Mister Bear think that the pumpkins he’s sitting on will hatch? Because Miz Goose...

Sitti and the Cats: A Tale of Friendship
By: Sally Bahous Allen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A beautiful Palestinian folktale teaches the golden rule.

Sleeping Beauty
By: Mahlon Craft, K.V. Craft
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Under the spell of a vengeful fairy, Princess Aurora sleeps for a hundred years until she is...

Snow Leopard
By: Jackie Morris
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Dazzling illustrations combine with lyrical language to emulate a creation myth. Set in the...

Snow White: A Three-Dimensional Fairytale Theater
By: Jane Ray
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
The traditional tale has been retold and newly presented to create a theater within the covers...

Sparrow Girl
By: Sara Pennypacker
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Ming-Li looked up and tried to imagine the sky silent, empty of birds. It was a terrible thought...

Stone Soup
By: Jon J Muth
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A traditional tale has set in China as three Zen monks come to a remote village where residents...

Stone Soup
By: Marcia Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Based on an old French folktate, the story is about how three hungry soldiers outsmart the...

Stories from the Billabong
By: James Vance Marshall
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Ten of Australia's ancient aboriginal legends, authentically and elegantly retold. Here you can...

Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel
By: Patricia Storace
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A lyrical and poignant retelling of the Rapunzel tale in a Caribbean setting matched with lush...

Sure as Sunrise: Tales of Bruh Rabbit and his Walkin' Talkin' Friends
By: Alice McGill
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Alice McGill retells the tales she heard growing up in North Carolina with the verve and...

Swamp Angel
By: Anne Isaacs
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
On the day of her birth, nothing about Angelica Longrider suggested that she would one day...

Tales from the Brothers Grimm
By: Brothers Grimm
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Nine tales from German folklore are presented in a large, vibrantly illustrated format are made...

Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection
By: Alma Flor Ada
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
"Stories have delighted both children and adults for as long as there have been families and...

Tales Told in Tents: Stories from Central Asia
By: Sally Pomme
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Where do you find needles? All over the world, of course! Readers will recognize many things in...

The Beautiful Stories of Life: Six Greeks Myths, Retold
By: Cynthia Rylant
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Bee-Man of Orn
By: Frank Stockton
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An aged Bee-man lives contentedly among his insect friends, surviving on honey and the...

The Castle on Hester Street
By: Linda Heller
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Julie loves to hear her grandfather's larger-than-life, highly imagined tales of long ago when...

The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred
By: Samantha Vamos
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Start with a farm maiden and a pot, invite some friends to help her, and before you know it, you...

The Emperor and the Kite
By: Jane Yolen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Princess Dejeow Seow spends her days alone, playing with a kite made of paper and sticks. Her...

The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story
By: Joseph Bruchac
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Seeing that man is sorry after arguing with his wife, Sun sends the first strawberries to the...

The Flute Player
By: Michael Lacapa
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
An Apache pourquoi folktale explains that the sound of wind echoing through the canyons comes...

The Giant and the Beanstalk
By: Diane Stanley
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Otto, a gentle giant, is understandably upset when a fellow named Jack steals his pet hen. When...

The Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Story
By: Judy Sierra
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A tale from the Spice Islands in Indonesia, offers a colorful and dramatic twist on the...

The Gift of the Sun: A Tale from South Africa
By: Dianne Stewart
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Thulani enjoys sitting in the sun, and he is tired of milking his cow. When he sells his cow to...

The Girl Who Wore Too Much: A Folktale from Thailand
By: Margaret MacDonald
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Aree likes fine clothing and jewelr, but she is just a wee bit spoiled and has more dresses and...

The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus
By: Aliki Aliki
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Retellings of Greek myths and a brief introduction to the gods and goddesses are presented in...

The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico
By: Nina Jaffe
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This Taino creation story describes how the island of Puerto Rico came into existence when the...

The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac
By: Dawn Casey
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Thirteen creatures in China have come to the river to join in the Emperor's race. Who will win...

The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale
By: Yumi Heo
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Have you wondered why frogs croak on the edge of streams? It all started long ago with two...

The Korean Cinderella
By: Shirley Climo
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
the story of Pear Blossom, a lovely girl who is sorely mistreated by her nasty stepmother and...

The Legend of Lightning and Thunder
By: Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Legend of the Bluebonnet
By: Tomie dePaola
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Bluebonnets are the state flower of Texas. How they came to be is an Indian legend from the...

The Legend of the Caribou Boy / Ekwò Dǫzhìa Wegond
By: George Blondin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
When a little boy, traveling with his parents and grandparents, has trouble sleeping at night,...

The Little Mermaid
By: Jerry Pinkney
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
In this reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's classic, Caldecott medalist Jerry Pinkney ...

The Mighty 12: Superheroes of Greek Myth
By: Charles Smith
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Greek gods and goddesses are the stuff of contemporary superheroes. Dramatic full-color,...

The Milky Way: A Cherokee Tale
By: Joseph Bruchac, Gayle Ross
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Have you ever wondered how the Milky Way came to be? According to a Cherokee legend, it started...

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
By: Virginia Hamilton
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
To escape the horrors of slavery, some people who remembered the old magic flew away from their...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin
By: Michael Morpurgo
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
In Hamelin town, the rich care only about themselves and so refuse to pay the piper who rids the...

The Rabbit and the Turtle
By: Eric Carle
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Eric Carle brings to life Aesop's fables with his gorgeous illustrations and charming retelling...

The Rough-Face Girl
By: Rafe Martin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When her older sisters try to convince the Invisible Being's sister that they can see him,...

The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women
By: Kartrin Tchana
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Here is a collection of eighteen stories about heroines: girls and women with as much courage as...

The Shipwrecked Sailor: An Egyptian Tale with Hieroglyphics
By: Tamara Bower
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A story based on a real papyrus scroll of hieroglyphics that tells a tale of a voyage on the Red...

The Singing Rock and Other Brand-New Fairy Tales
By: Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A funny, comics-format collection of four original fairy tales, that reinvent recognizable...

The Star People: A Lakota Story
By: S. D. Nelson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
While exploring the land around their village, Sister Girl and Young Wolf stray too far. After...

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
By: Jon Scieszka
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The incomparable author and illustrator team retells traditional tales such as the "...

The Three Golden Oranges
By: Alma Flor Ada
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A poetic retelling of a well-loved traditional story about Blancaflor, a mythical young woman...

The Three Little Pigs: An Architectural Tale
By: Steven Guarnaccia
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Three Pigs
By: David Wiesner
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Once upon a time three pigs built three houses, out of straw, sticks, and bricks. Along came a...

The Tiger and the Brahmin
By: Bran Gleeson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This classic Indian fairy tale, when a kind Brahmin discovers a tiger in a trap, he convinces...

The Walrus Who Escaped
By: Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
When Raven becomes jealous of Walrus' useful curved tusks, Raven freezes the sea, trapping...

The Weather's Bet
By: Ed Young
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
In the retelling of this Aesop fable, the wind, rain, and sun compete to make a shepherd take...

The Woman Who Outshone the Sun / La mujer que brillaba aún más que el sol
By: Alejandro Cruz Martinez
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Lucia Zenteno is a mythic character, a woman of great beauty who is perfectly in tune with...

Thea's Tree
By: Alison Jackson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Thea observes the growth of the three unusual beans she plants for her science project. A series...

There's a Wolf at the Door: Five Classic Tales
By: Zoe Alley
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A hungry but dapper wolf cannot get Alan, Gordon, and Blake (aka the Three Little Pigs) to open...

Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back
By: Joseph Bruchac
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry
To many Native Americans, the 13 cycles of the moon represent the changing seasons and the...

Thunder Rose
By: Jerdine Nolan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
In this tall tale, Thunder Rose vows to grow up to be more than just big and strong,...

Tim O'Toole and the Wee Folk
By: Gerald McDermott
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Tim O’Toole and his wife, Kathleen, are so poor they have not a penny or a potato between them....

Treasury of Greek Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes & Monsters
By: Donna Jo Napoli
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Vivid retellings and luminous illustrations reinvigorate the Greek myths.

Tuko and the Birds: A Tale from the Philippines
By: Shirley Climo
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Ugly
By: Donna Jo Napoli
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This retelling of the classic tale of "the Ugly Duckling" is richly told with details of...

Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fables
By: Helen Ward
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
The enduring wisdom of Aesop's fables have been retold and newly illustrated. The large,...

Vietnamese Children's Favorite Stories
By: Phuoc Thi Minh Tran
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
These 15 stories reflect the traditions, myths, and history of Vietnam, with trees and flowers...

Waiting for the Biblioburro
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Meet Ana, a young girl who loves to read. There aren't many books in her small Colombian village...

Whiskers, Tails and Wings: Animal Folktales from Mexico
By: Judy Goldman
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Who Wants to Be a Princess?
By: Bridget Heos
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The illustration looks like a fairy tale but this book actually dispels the myth of the...

Who's In Rabbit's House?
By: Verna Aardema
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Rabbit cannot go into her own house for fear of the ferocious-sounding animal inside. Told as a...

Wiley and the Hairy Man
By: Judy Sierra
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Wiley and his mama live near the swamp; together, they trick the scary ol' hairy man three...

Wings
By: Christopher Myers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Stunning, bold collage illustrations carry the action in this reworking of the traditional Greek...

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fables to Read Together
By: Mary Ann Hoberman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Humorous illustration and color-coded, rhyming text present retellings of familiar fables that...

Young Zeus
By: G. Brian Karas
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Age Level: 9-12 years old


Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
By: Scott Reynolds Nelson, Marc Aronson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
The search for the man who beat a steam engine unfolds in words and pictures. The mystery in...

Amazing Greek Myths of Wonder and Blunders
By: Michael Townsend
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Ten familiar myths—the stories of Pandora, Arachne, Midas, Perseus, and others-are embellished...

American Born Chinese
By: Gene Yang
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Three storylines — contemporary and mythic — intersect in this tale of a boy who is not...

Apollo: The Brilliant One (Olympians series)
By: George O'Connor
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
The Greek muse, Polyhmnia, invites readers into a story of the gods of Olympus focusing on the...

Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of The Iliad
By: Rosemary Sutcliffe
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
The essence of Homer's Iliad is captured by Sutcliff's rich language combined with dramatic...

Calamity Jack
By: Dean Hale, Nathan Hale
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
With help from Rapunzel (and her trusty braids), a pixie from Jack's past, and a man with...

Celtic Mythology for Kids: Tales of Selkies, Giants, and the Sea
By: Chris Pinard
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Imagine a world where fearsome giants, mischievous fairies, charming witches, and ageless queens...

Dog People: Native Dog Stories
By: Joseph Bruchac
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
The voice of an Abenaki storyteller takes children back 10,000 years to the days when children...

Fiesta Femenina
By: Mary-Joan Gerson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Drawing from Mexico's rich cultural heritage, this olktale collection celebrates the courage and...

Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America
By: Lulu Delacre
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
This lush collection of twelve traditional Latin American tales brings the history and culture...

Greek Myths
By: Ann Turnbull
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Sixteen of the most celebrated myths in dramatic retelling, from the sadness of Persephone to...

Grimms' Fairy Tales
By: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected...

Hiawatha and the Peacemaker
By: Robbie Robertson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
The saga of Hiawatha who along with the Peacemaker was instrumental in creating the federation...

If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella
By: Laura Whipple
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Poetry
This book takes a fresh look at an old and favorite story. Thirty-three poems bring to life the...

Iron Hearted Violet
By: Kelly Barnhill
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when...

Knights of the Kitchen Table (Time Warp Trio series)
By: Jon Scieszka
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
As a gift from his magician uncle, Joe receives The Book setting into motion a series of...

Lalani of the Distant Sea
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Lalani and her mother live on Sanlagita, an island under constant threat from the mountain Isa....

Legends of the Iroquois
By: Tehanetorens (Ray Fadden)
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
This collection of Iroquois stories, told by elder and tribal scholar Tehanetorens, is made...

Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up in a War
By: Kathy Henderson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
In ancient times there lived a prince named Lugalbanda, the youngest and weakest of seven sons....

Magic Moments / Momentos Magicos
By: Olga Loya
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
A bilingual collection of 15 traditional tales from Latin America, including: Scary Stories,...

Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
By: Nelson Mandela
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
In his foreword to this rich compilation, Nelson Mandela writes, "This collection offers a...

Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki
By: Kevin Crossley-Holland
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Tales from the Norse are not for the fainthearted or youngest, evident in these straightforward...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
By: Rick Riordan
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
12-year-old Percy Jackson learns the truth about his unique abilities: he is a demigod, half...

Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
By: Rick Riordan
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon and a human woman (and title character in the Olympian series of...

Ramayana: Divine Loophole
By: Sabjay Patel
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
One of Hindu mythology's best-loved tales gets a retelling with a lush, whimsical illustration...

Rapunzel's Revenge
By: Shannon Hale, Dean Hale
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
This re-telling of the familiar fairy tale is set in the Wild West and features a spunky heroine...

Simeon's Gift
By: Emma Walton Hamilton
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
In this modern fable, Simeon loves a noblewoman from afar and seeks to find the music from deep...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Michael Morpugo
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
When a huge, rough man threatens King Arthur's court, it is the honorable, brave Sir Gawain who...

Starry River of the Sky
By: Grace Lin
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Rendi, a self-centered, unhappy boy runs away from home and winds up in a sad town. Storytelling...

Tales From the Arabian Nights: Stories of Adventure, Magic, Love, and Betrayal
By: Donna Jo Napoli
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Classic stories and dazzling illustrations of princesses, kings, sailors, and genies come to...

Tenggren's Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights
By: Gustav Tenngren
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
From “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” to “Sinbad the Sailor...

The Adventures of Thor the Thunder God
By: Lis Lunge-Larsen
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
He is the biggest and mightiest of the gods. If he tightens his belt, he doubles his strength....

The Boggart
By: Susan Cooper
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
When the Volnick family accidentally brings a Boggart home to Toronto from Scotland, the results...

The Dragon Prince: Stories and Legends from Vietnam
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
This collection of 15 stories and legends from Vietnam retold by Zen master poet and peace...

The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America
By: Jamie Hernandez
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Meet the dragon slayer, a girl and a mouse, and a boy who talks to ants. Three traditional tales...

The Giant Bear: An Inuit Folktale
By: Jose Angutingunrik
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
One of the most terrifying creatures to be found in traditional Inuit stories is the nanurluk, a...

The Girl Who Drank the Moon
By: Kelly Barnhill
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
An young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, must unlock the...

The Jumbies
By: Tracey Baptiste
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
A spine-tingling fairy tale rooted in Haitian folklore about a brave girl and her adventures...

The Metropolitans
By: Carol Goodman
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Four young people come together at the Metropolitan in New York City on the very day that Pearl...

The Moon
By: Hannah Pang
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
In this striking volume, readers will encounter the moon in both fact and fiction. Moon myths...

The Odyssey
By: Gareth Hinds
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Award-winning graphic artist Gareth Hinds masterfully reinterprets a story of heroism, adventure...

The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee
By: Barbara Duncan
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years telling stories...

The Tale of Despereaux
By: Kate DiCamillo
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Distinct stories which involve a mouse, a human princess, and a rat seamlessly come together to...

The Trickster and the Troll
By: Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
The friendship and adventures of Iktomi, the trickster figure from Lakota legend, and Troll, the...

The Wild Swans
By: Hans Christian Andersen
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
A princess has eleven brothers. The twelve siblings live happily and well, until their father...

Thundercluck!
By: Paul Tillery IV
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Absolute silliness results when a chicken is caught up in a struggle with a Norse god. The...

Treasury of Egyptian Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals
By: Donna Jo Napoli
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
A rich collection of Egyptian myths, including those of pharaohs, queens, the boisterous Sun God...

When the Sea Turned to Silver
By: Grace Lin
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
The story of Pinmei and her quest to find her grandmother, the storyteller. Inspired by Chinese...

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
By: Grace Lin
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Why Leopard has Spots: Dan Stories from Liberia
By: Won-Ldy Paye, Margaret Lippert
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Have you ever wondered why the leopard has spots or why a spider has a big butt? This collection...

Wild Swans
By: Xanthe Gresham Knight
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Magic has turned Eliza’s 11 brothers into swans and only she can rescue them. Brilliantly...

Wise Fool: Fables from the Islamic World
By: Shahrukh Husain
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
The riotous adventures and misadventures of Mulla Nasruddin introduce a new generation to one of...