Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.

With weird swamp noises swirling around him, Beak the Bird can't get any sleep until his friend Ally the alligator shows him where the racket is coming from.

A gentle book of touching and feeling.

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to the Arctic, where a polar bear leads them onto very thin ice.

While having their first campout, two friends discuss what scares them and with help from each other they see things in a different light.

"When her world divides, pitting light against dark, Veda must join a dangerous revolution to save her grandfather and fight against injustice...even if it costs her the boy she loves. On the island of Bellona, life is peaceful--as long as the citizens dutifully worship the Sun, which protects them from all harm. Seventeen-year-old Veda knows that keeping the Sun happy will protect her and her grandfather from the Night, the dangerous people who snatch...

A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away — the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder — are...