Jerry Pinkney

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.

Three billy goats must outwit the big, ugly troll that lives under the bridge they have to cross on their way up the mountain.

Presents the classic tale of three youngsters who are careless with their mittens, but who turn out to be good little kittens after all.

"Jerry Pinkney, Caldecott Medal winner and illustrator of over one hundred books, tells the story of his childhood and how he developed his artistic talent"--

Retells the biblical story of the great flood and how Noah and his family faithfully responded to God's call to save life on earth.

Illustrations and minimal text relate the familiar fable of the race between a slow tortoise and a quick but foolish hare.

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

Despite being neglected by the emperor for a jewel-studded bird, the little nightingale revives the dying ruler with its beautiful song. A retelling set in Northwest Africa.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years. This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in Black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage....

A collection of nearly sixty fables from Aesop, including such familiar ones as "The Grasshopper and the Ants," "The North Wind and the Sun," "Androcles and the Lion," "The Troublesome Dog," and "The Fox and the Stork."