The spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her win Duffy the Squire's name and a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devil's name.

A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.

A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name.

Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon.

A collection of traditional American nursery rhymes, finger games, skipping rhymes, jingles, and counting-out rhymes.

A sly fox tries to outwit a proud rooster through the use of flattery.

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

While chasing a dumpling, a little lady is captured by wicked creatures from whom she escapes with the means of becoming the richest woman in Japan.

A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well.

"Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper."--