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This book is an accessible, engaging tool to help people enrich their lives through the observance of ancient, astronomically determined Earth festivals. It assists us to recover an experience that had deep meaning for the ancients and that is now increasingly relevant to a world facing environmental challenges. Seasonal festivals are not meant to be cultural relics. They are joyous, fun, mischievous, profound, life-affirming events that connect us...
10) Chicken Little
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A retelling of the classic story of Chicken Little, who has an acorn fall on his head and runs in a panic to his friends Henny Penny, Lucky Ducky, and Loosey Goosey, to tell them the sky is falling.
Caldecott Medalist Ed Emberley and his daughter Rebecca put a new twist on a classic tale and make the sky fall in an entirely new way, as crazy-eyed Chicken and all his panicked friends run away from the sky--and right into an eye-catching gatefold surprise....
12) The crane wife
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A retelling of the traditional Japanese tale about a poor sail maker who gains a beautiful but mysterious wife skilled at weaving magical sails.
19) 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 fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.
Two superstar talents in children's books come together and put a hilarious twist on the classic fable by Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes. Full color.
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