Throughout his earliest years at school, exuberant Donald Zinkoff smiles and laughs like crazy, even when a big kid steals his giant giraffe hat on the first day of first grade, and when his second grade teacher tells him his handwriting is atrocious and kicks him out of class just... Read More

Look at the cover with that woebegone, discontented toddler. If ever there was a book to show to kids with the simple question, "What do you think this story is about?" this is it. It begins, "Finn likes peaches. Usually." Look at the sweet little toddler on the first page,... Read More

Story-lovers have always been fond of noodlehead, nitwit, and fool stories, These characters are hapless and drive everyone crazy, being unable to do much of anything right, on account of how lazy or befuddled they are. Noodleheads are not necessarily tricksters, as are the beloved folktale scamps, Anansi the Spider... Read More

Retold by a master storyteller who recalls each story from her North Carolina childhood, these five crackling traditional African American folktales about the crafty trickster Bruh Rabbit and his animal pals and rivals will get your listeners thumping their chairs with laughter. Bruh Fox believes there are roasted chicken legs... Read More

Not your usual princess story, this one's not a fairy tale, but the story of how Princess Penelope, spoiled rotten by her royal parents, learns to control herself for the sake of one lovely and intelligent pig. For her eighth birthday, the Princess knows JUST what she wants: "I WANNA... Read More

In 1960, African American first grader, Ruby Bridges, helped to integrate the New Orleans public schools, passing a mob of demonstrating segregationists every day on her way to class, where she was taught by a courageous white teacher, Barbara Henry. Ruby's affecting and inspirational autobiographical account is interspersed with quotes... Read More