Jane Yolen

A powerful celebration of libraries from master storyteller Jane Yolen. Benjamin Franklin introduces his son Billy to the Leather Apron Club, where it's love at first page. When Billy's father Benjamin Franklin announces that Billy and his lazy cousin James will soon have a tutor, Billy is initially dismayed. But, his tutor awakens him to the power of story and books, and when, Billy accompanies his father to the Leather Apron Club (which Franklin...

From iconic children's author Jane Yolen, and renowned illustrator Bob Marstall, this stunning picture book is the first in a new Jane Yolen series created for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the world authority on birds. Based on the cumulative nursery rhyme and song, The Green Grass Grew All Around, this enchanting version features a boy and his dog who find a nest on a hill.

Rhyming text depicts a father sharing with his child such things as seven words that all mean blue and the name of every kind of cloud.

Young, beautiful Dove Isabeau is turned into a fire-breathing dragon by her evil stepmother and is saved from the spell by her true love, Kemp Owain.

Relates how a turnip farmer's daughter outwits the fearsome witch Baba Yaga.

When young Arthur is troubled by dreams, Merlin tells him a story about a fatherless boy who himself dreamed about dragons and the defeat of the evil king Vortigern.

A biography of the English pacifist who founded the Quaker movement in the 17th century.

A Highland lad comes of age at the brutal battle of Culloden in 18th-century Scotland. In the year 1745, the cry goes out across the Scottish Highlands for every able-bodied Scotsman to take up arms in support of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Stalwart and brave but prone to sudden seizures, young Duncan longs to join his da and the other men of clan MacDonald in the noble fight against the English. His father decrees the boy must remain behind, but the call...

Rosha's brother Tup is mad Rosha likes to play alone instead of with him. One day he cuts her hair and uses it to trap the sun. Rosha asks the animals to help her free the sun, but only the mole will. Can such a small animal help with such a big job? Learn why moles live underground in this folk tale from the Maya highlands.

Three Billy Goats Gruff are trying to cross a bridge to get to the sweet green grass on the other side. But there's a troll under the bridge who wants to eat them up! Read this Norwegian story to see if the Three Billy Goats Gruff can defeat the troll.