Gail E Haley

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

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

Recaptures the incident during the American Revolution when Jack Jouett rode to warn Thomas Jefferson and others of the coming of Tarleton's raiders.

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.