Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings

It seems animals are like people in many ways-they just can't get along with one another. And Brer Rabbit has the most trouble of all. Maybe it's his mischievous ways, or maybe it's because adventures always come looking for him. There was the frightening day that Brer Rabbit found himself attached to a baby made of sticky tar. Brer Fox would have had a tasty barbecue that evening if Brer Rabbit hadn't been such a quick thinker. Then there was the...

A young man searches for three people more foolish than his fiancée and her parents

A collection of tall tales about such American folk heroes as Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Paul Bunyan

Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.

A collection of popular tales told to young children in places such as Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Mexico

After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world

A baker in colonial New York learns the importance of generosity from an old woman who visits his shop on St. Nicholas Day