Get ready for Jack's adventures out West, as Smiling Jack Candle crosses paths with a grim sheriff from back East who carries no gun.

A retelling of the fable in which a young boy's false cries for help cause him problems when he is really in need of assistance.

An elephant hunter's chronicle of his safari into the interior of South Africa to search for a fabled diamond mine and to rescue the brother of the English gentleman who accompanies him across the deserts and mountains.

Retells how the wolf's plan to get into the sheep pen backfires when the farmer butchers him for a lamb dinner.

"This literary novel (which combines narrative conventions of the mystery, magical realism, meta-fiction, environmental writing, and satire) is set in the future in New York and follows an investigator's efforts to find the link between the state's late governor's ruinous redevelopment policies, the governor's son-in-law, and the extinct passenger pigeon"--Provided by publisher.

Includes introduction to storytelling and instructions and patterns for 22 songs, stories, poems and fables.

"Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty, is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you've rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you've gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues. Just when Zinnia's beginning to think she can't handle one more princess,...

"A modern, illustrated fable for readers of all ages that explores life's universal lessons from beloved British illustrator Charlie Mackesy"--

When the bears learn of the legendary Last Great Wilderness, a fabled bear paradise, they believe that this must be their ultimate destination.