Joanne Oppenheim

When a poor, but generous, man gives the king his giant turnip and is richly rewarded, the man's rich, selfish brother decides to follow suit.

In this story based on "The Little Red Hen, " a little black crow asks his animal friends to help with the planting of some corn seed.

Surrounded by the many sounds of spring, a hibernating bear is late in waking up, until he hears one very special sound.

Uses a tour through a botanical museum to introduce many different kinds of plants and the ways in which they grow all over the world.

On a dark and windy night, the animals in the barn are frightened by strange noises on the roof and think that it might be a ghost.

Allie finds a frog for show-and-tell, but he disappears before she can take him to school.

Because her family is too poor for her to bring a gift to the Christ child at midnight mass, Juanita does not want to go to church, until she hears a voice telling her to bring an armload of weeds which turn into beautiful flowers, in a retelling of a traditional Mexican tale.

A biography of the Cherokee Indian who invented a syllabary for the Cherokee language.

Traces the life of the Sauk Indian leader who struggled in vain to prevent the Americans from claiming the rich farmland near the Mississippi River in Illinois.

After taking and eating one of his mother's carrot pies, young Rooter Rabbit fearfully tells several false stories before he is able to confess the truth.