Gail E Haley

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called "Spider Stories."

Discover how an African trickster god made it possible for people to tell stories in this brightly illustrated, Caldecott Medal–winning picture book.
Long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky to bargain with the Sky God. The price the Sky God asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth,...

A guide to costume making with instructions for many types of accessories.

Jack encounters the menacing monster known as Fire Dragaman and rescues three beautiful sisters from the monster's underground cave.

A cunning cat wins for his master a castle, a fortune, and the hand of a princess.

A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk where he uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant and make his fortune.

The letters of the alphabet race each other up the coconut tree. In a house filled with two parents, one girl, and two cats, counting has never been so much fun. Librarian Molly McGrew introduces a zoo full of animals to reading and they go simply wild about books. To avoid getting eaten, a resourceful inchworm must figure out how to measure a nightingale's song.