Around-the-world folktales for children three to seven, chosen and retold by New York Times best selling children's author Judy Sierra and storyteller and puppeteer Robert Kaminski. Exciting, funny, silly, sometimes a tad scary, these are stories that adult readers truly enjoy reading and performing. They are also perfect for making into plays, animating, illustrating, and retelling in creative writing projects. These fifty tales were originally published as picture books or in anthologies, and received awards from the American Library Association (Notable Children's Books) and the American Folklore Society (Aesop Prize for the best children's folklore book of the year). "This collection will elicit plenty of giggles, whether shared at bedtime, in a story hour, or in a classroom setting." —School Library Journal review of Silly and Sillier, the source of a dozen of these tales. Contents: The Wonderful Pancake (Ireland) Bear Squash-You-All-Flat (Russia) Why the Rooster Crows at Dawn (Mexico) Henny Penny (England) The Story of the Three Little Pigs (England) The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Norway) The Rolling Pumpkin (Iran) Johnny Cake (United States) Ticky-Picky Boom! Boom! (Jamaica) The Gunniwolf (United States) The Three Bears (England) The Beautiful Butterfly (Spain) Drakestail (France) The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean (Germany) The Elephant's Wrestling Match (Cameroon) The Toontoony Bird (Pakistan) The Fox and the Lizard (Native American: Laguna Pueblo) The Bremen Town Musicians (Germany) Juan Bobo (Argentina) A Very Scary Caterpillar (Kenya) General Roly-Poly Bug (Italy) The Talkative Tortoise The Deer, the Fox, and the Tiger (China) The Monkey and the Crocodile (India) Uwungelema (South Africa) The Tengus' Magic Nose Fan (Japan) Roly Poly Rice Ball (Japan) How Ijapa Tricked the Hippo (Nigeria) Jabuti Tricks Mr. Jaguar (Brazil) Too Many Fish (Borneo) The Nung Gwa Ma (China) The Rat's Daughter (Japan) One Good Turn Deserves Another (Mexico) Master Thumb (Myanmar) A Bridge of Crocodiles (Indonesia) Silly and Sillier (England) The Three Wishes (England) Soup from a Nail (Sweden) The Hairy Toe (United States) The Black Velvet Ribbon (United States) Clever Mandy (Bahamas) Jean and Jeannette (France) The Tortoise and the Iroko Man (Nigeria) The Sprightly Tailor (Scotland) The Zim (South Africa) The Candy Tree (Sri Lanka) Buttercup (Norway) Taily-po (United States) Wiley and the Hairy Man (African American) Jack and the Beanstalk (England)