Aladdin outwits an evil magician who first tries to trick him into handing over an old lamp with a genie inside and later steals Aladdin's wife and possessions.
Tizzy's in a frizzy tizzy because all of the Treasure Trolls in the land of Hodge Podge toss their garbage here and there. With the help of a little bird called a litter-twitter, Tizzy and the trolls learn to recycle.
The Moral of the Story (World Storytelling from August House)
by Bobby Norfolk and Sherry Norfolk
Each day the gypsy walks with the sea on his right and the mountains on his left, and each night he rests and plays his lute. Four beautiful animals - the lion, the grey Ibis, the scorpion and the viper snake hide in the shadows and listen to him play. One morning he doesn't wake up - how can the animals save the life of the gypsy whose music they love?
Smart, blond attorney Whitney Lambert and her sexy Chicana sister-in-arms, Lupe Ramos, are back in a hip, noir mystery that spirals deep into L.A.'s Koreatown. When the two women arrive in Koreatown to collect Lupe's son from his grandmother, they come upon a masked intruder who has just tied up two old ladies, murdered one, and made off with the $75,000 savings of a Korean widows' club.
The Lady of the Shroud (Alan Rodgers Books) (Desert Island Dracula Library S.)
by Bram Stoker
Set in the early nineteenth century, Brams fiction The Lady of the Shroud is full of mystical and super-natural elements. A brilliant presentation of a lady who appears always in a shroud, this work engrosses the readers. The Balkan lands are presented and a slight political touch is also given towards the end. Mesmerizing!
Japanese Fairy Tales (Akasha Classics ) (Cosimo Classics Myth & Folklore)
by Yei Theodora Ozaki
This colorfully illustrated multicultural children's book presents Japanese fairy tales and other folk stories--providing insight into a rich literary culture. The rich world of Japanese fantasy is very apparent in Japanese Fairy Tales, a compilation of twenty-two favorite stories from the land of the rising sun. A fantastic selection of ghouls, goblins and ogres, sea serpents and sea kings, kindly animals and magic birds, demons and dragons, princes and princesses hide within these pages. These...