Albert, Burton.
Where Does The Trail Lead?
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. The book is written in poetic form about a young boy’s exploration of an uninhabited island.
Coplans, Peta.
Spaghetti For Suzy
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Co., 1993. The author was born in South Africa. She writes a delightful story about a girl named Suzy who eats only spaghetti until she encounters three oddball animals who change Suzy’s outlook.
Drucker, Malka.
Grandma’s Latkes
. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1992. A beautiful story about passing down a tradition from one generation to another. Young readers learn why latkes are eaten on Hanukkah and how to make Grandma’s latkes.
Esbensen, Barbara.
Ladder To The Sky
. Boston: Little, Brown and Company., 1989. A tale about the Ojibway people.
Fern. Eugene.
Pepito’s Story
. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1993. The setting for this story takes place in a little fishing village by the sea. It could be anywhere in Central or South America.
Guirma, Frederic.
Tales of Mogho
. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1971. A collection of folk tales from the Upper Volta in West Africa.
Joos, Francoiseand Frederic.
The Golden Snowflake
. Boston Little, Brown and Company, 1991. A delightful story about a magical snowflake and a lucky snowman named Hector.
Haviland, Virginai.
Favorite Fairy Tales Told In Czechoslovakia
. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1966.
Haviland, Virginai.
Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Greece
. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1970.
Lyon, George and Catalanotto, Peter.
Dreamplace
. New York: Orchard Books, 1993. The author portrays a story—part real, part fantasy—about a young visitor who wakes up and sees life in Mesa Verde, Colorado as it may have been eight hundred years ago.
Lyons, Grant.
Tales The People Tell In Mexico
. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1992. A series of tales from Mexico with a glossary of Spanish words and their meanings.
McDermott,
Arrow To The Sun
. New York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1974. A Pueblo Indian tale.
Reid, Barbara and Reid, Ewa.
The Cobbler’s Reward
. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1978. A folk tale from Poland.
Raschka, Chris.
Yo! Yes?
New York: Orchard Books, 1993. The setting takes place on the streets of New York. Although the book does not contain many words, it would be a lovely book for children to expand into a play.
Reed, Gwendolyn.
The Talkative Beasts
. New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1969. A collection of myths, fables and poems from India.
Rickert, Edith.
The Bojabi Tree
. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1958. An African folk tale.
Robertson, Dorothy Lewis.
Fairy Tales From Viet Nam
. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1968.
Rockwell, Anne.
The Monkey’s Whiskers
. New York: Parents’ Magazine Press, 1971. A Brazilian folk tale.
Roughsey, Dick.
The Rainbow Serpent
. Milwaukee: Gareth Stevens Publishing, 1975. A folk tale from Australia including a glossary of words.
Scheer, George F.
Cherokee Animal Tales
. New York: Holiday House, Inc., 1968. Animal tales told by Cherokee Indians.
Schiller, Barbara.
Audun and His Bear
. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, l968. An ancient Icelandic tale.
Seuling, Barbara.
The Teeny Tiny Woman
. New York: The Viking Press., 1976. An old English ghost tale.
Sewall, Marcia.
The Little Wee Tyke
. Baltimore: A. Hoen and Company, Inc., 1979. An English folk tale.
Serwadda, Moses W. S
ongs and Stories From Uganda
. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974. Traditional folk songs and stories from East Africa.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis.
Elijah The Slave
. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. A Hebrew legend.
Singh, Jacquelin.
Fat Gopal
. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Publishers, 1984. A folk tale from India.
Souci, Robert San.
The Legend of Scarface
. New York: Doubleday and company, Inc., 1978. A Blackfee Indian tale.
Stamm, Claus.
Three Strong Woman
. New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc., 1990. A folk tale from Japan.
Stanley, Sanna.
The Rains Are Coming
. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1993. Stanley gives a vivid account of sights and sounds of an African village in Zaire, Africa.
Stobbs, William.
The Little Red Hen
. Oxford: Oxford University Press., 1986. A traditional tale.
Tan, Amy.
The Moon Lady
. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1992. The author takes one back in time and retells a story from her childhood days in China.
Tune, Duelyn Ching.
How Maui Slowed The Sun
. Singapore: A Kolowalu Book, 1988. An Hawaiian folk tale.
Young, Ed.
Lon Po Po
. New York: Philomel Books, 1989. A Red-Riding Hood story from China.