Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Legends, Myths, Fables - General

Facing his fears, Marin devises a plan to trade with the mighty beast. The dragon is not amused but listens to the boy's request for help. With an offer that the dragon cannot refuse, Marin saves his village and comes to understand that fair trade with a dragon can be very...

. . . Time just stood still for me and Momma and Daddy . . . I tried to figure out what to do, but I couldn't . . . Stood still right in the middle of a whirlwind blowing all around me something fierce.

And I couldn't get the whirlwind to stop.

In one tragic moment, Mindy's life changes from pure happiness to whirlwinds of confusion and difficulty. Her brother's sudden death sends her searching for answers to help her accept what the mind knows but the heart can't understand about pain and grief.

With an unlikely friend, Amos, Mindy embarks upon a journey for knowledge. A tree...

Appearing on a village road, the mystical horse chooses to reveal itself to various local people at critical times in their lives. Some people are confused and puzzled by the animal's abilities, while others are relieved of pain and sorrow. Families struggling with life's difficulties are given important messages that lead to positive change. Always proving to be a benevolent...

Set in an Irish farming community in the 1950s, "The MysteriousGolden Horse" is a journey through time to an eccentric world wherethe local residents are watched over by a majestic horse withsupernatural powers.

Appearing on a village road, the mystical horse chooses to revealitself to various local people at critical times in their lives. Somepeople are confused and puzzled by the animal's abilities, whileothers are relieved of pain and sorrow. Families struggling with life'sdifficulties are given important messages that lead to positivechange. Always proving to be a benevolent and...

Through no conscious choices of their own, the boys confront life-altering obstacles. David becomes lost in a world induced by psychedelic drugs, and Ashton unknowingly becomes a member of a clan of crows. With the help of an aged medicine woman, his own recovered ancient memories, and his animal spirits, Ashton enters the underworld and is able to save his friend.

David and Ashton get into...

Once in Old Hawaii, in the days when anything was possible, supernatural kupua roamed the islands, challenging kings and chiefs, tricking men, women, and boys. The Hawaiian people would tell and retell tales of kupua exploits, and of the men who challenged them.

Some of the tall tales included in this volume are of shape-shifters like Shark Man of Ewa, who could change from man to shark, from shark to rat, from rat to a bunch of bananas. Others are of kupua with extraordinary powers like Kana, who could stretch himself as tall as a palm tree, as slender as a bamboo, as thin as a...

When the storytellers of ancient Hawaii gathered by the light of candlenut torches, they told tales that explained the world around them. These tales described how the gods created the earth and its life, how the stars were created, and why the days are longer in summer. Other stories recounted the pranks of Kamapuaa the Pig-Man, the origin of the tapa tree, the death of the monster reptile mo-o, and the home of the volcano goddess, Pele.

From this rich body of mythology, author Vivian Thompson has drawn twelve myths. She retells them with the true flavor and simplicity of the...

Children of all ages will delight in this captivating collection of fables featuring creatures found in Hawai'i's waters and tropical oceans worldwide. In its depths and on its shores, you'll meet many of the sea's inhabitants--from manta rays to moray eels, from colorful cowries to fish of every size and color in the rainbow.

Like its companion, Fables from the Garden (UH Press, 1998), this book offers valuable lessons at the end of each story. A tiny shrimp remembers an act of kindness, a seabird learns to respect the property of others, a young hermit crab understands the...