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In trying to determine which of his six sons to reward for saving his life, Anansi the Spider is responsible for placing the moon in the sky.
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A retelling of the Grimm tale in which an old donkey, dog, cat, and rooster, no longer wanted by their masters, set out for Bremen to become musicians.
3. The contest
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An Armenian folktale about two robbers courting the same girl.
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A retelling of the legend about a boy who became mayor of London, who heard his future in the Bells of Bow and made his fortune through his cat.
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When the emperor is imprisoned in a high tower, his smallest daughter, whom he has always ignored, uses her kite to save him.
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A retelling of the traditional tale from the French West Indies in which two friends, Clement and Hippolyte, encounter love, zombies, and danger on the island of Martinique.
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Three bears return home from a walk to find a little girl asleep in baby bear's bed.
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A retelling of the well-known tale in which two children are left in the woods but find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.
9. John Henry
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Retells the legend of the African-American railroad builder who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
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On her way to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother, Elisabeth encounters a sly wolf.
11. Puss in boots
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A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.
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Raven, a Pacific Coast Indian trickster, sets out to find the sun.
13. Rumpelstiltskin
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A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
14. Seven blind mice
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Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice.
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Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.
16. Stone soup
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Three soldiers coming to a French village are put to the test, when the peasants seeing them coming, suddenly become very busy, for soldiers are often hungry. So all the food was hidden under mattresses or in barns. The soldiers must use their wits to devise a wonderful soup of stones. Stone soup, why, of course, they have to add a carrot or two, some meat...so it went.
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When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.
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The gifts of Magic Frog and his own hopeful and unselfish spirit bring Jumping Mouse finally to the Far-Off Land where no mouse goes hungry.
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A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.
20. Tops & bottoms
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Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.