Jerry Pinkney

A newly illustrated edition of the classic fable of the hen who is forced to do all the work of baking bread and of the animals who learn a bitter lesson from it.

Retells the biblical story of the great flood and how Noah and his family faithfully responded to God's call to save life on earth.

In this retelling of the classic Aesop fable, hardworking ants stock up for the winter while a fun-loving grasshopper plays all year long, until the cold weather arrives and he realizes his mistake in not planning ahead.

A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.

The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brief, tragic life.

Three billy goats must outwit the big, ugly troll that lives under the bridge they have to cross on their way up the mountain.

"In this reinvention of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, a little mermaid trades her voice for legs and makes a new friend on land, but must return to the sea to save her family"-- Provided by publisher.

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

On her family's farm in the town of Star, eight-year-old Mae eagerly follows the progress of the 1969 Apollo 11 flight and moon landing and dreams that she might one day be an astronaut, too.

A black cowboy is so in tune with wild mustangs that they accept him into the herd, thus enabling him singlehandedly to take them to the corral.