Nancy Van Laan

A rhyming retelling of an Indian folktale from Brazil about tiny, playful monkeys and why they have no place to call home

A young Quechuan boy sets out on his own to bring the rains back to his parched homeland and is rewarded by a gift of carob beans that come to be prized across Argentina

Rhyming text asks what happens to different animals and plants "when winter comes and the cold wind blows."

A collection of tales, rhymes, riddles, superstitions, and sayings organized around the three distinct regions of the South: the Bayou, the Deep South, and Appalachia

A cumulative tale in verse about a mysterious possum that interrupts a family's daily routine