Engage Young Readers with 24 Fascinating Folktales from Around the World
Tall Tales, Fairy Tales, Fables, and more! Understanding the unique text features of different genres improves students’ reading comprehension in both English and Spanish.
Books are leveled for readers J–P.
Beautiful illustrations directly support text.
Tips and activities help teachers and parents improve children’s reading skills.
Teaching Cards for each title develop literary and genre analysis.
This is a fable about kindness and mercy. Mouse is feeling playful and wakes up Lion. At first Lion is angry. But Lion shows mercy on the Mouse. And that kindness is returned one day.
This Aesop’s Fable retelling is about two cousins who live in two very different places: the city and the country. They visit each other to try to decide which place is better. Which do you think is better?
This African American Tall Tale tells of John Henry, who was as big as an oak tree in overalls! He is famous as the strongest railroad worker in the east, west, north, and south.
Do you know why all chipmunks have three stripes down their backs? This pourquoi tale gives a creative explanation as to how this happened. This tale originated with the Seneca Indians.
Medusa brags and brags about her beauty. She loves to look in the mirror. She loves to tell others that she is the prettiest. Find out what happens when a young lady spends all of her time bragging?
In the African pourquoi tale, long ago people could take bites of the delicious Sky whenever they wanted to. People gobbled and gobbled and gobbled the Sky. Soon the Sky had to make some changes.
What if you were given a locked box as a gift and told to never open it? Pandora received this gift from Zeus, the head of the Greek gods. What could be so important that it needs padlocked shut?