Julie Downing

While walking in the woods on a winter day, a little girl finds a blue feather and gives it to her mother.

Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text reveal the nighttime activities of forest animals that awake when Sun sets and Moon rises.

With the aid of her magic wooden horse, a brave girl travels to the High House in the mountains to rescue her kidnapped brother from the trolls.

In eighteenth-century Korea, after Sang-hee's father injures his ankle, Sang-hee attempts to take over the task of lighting the evening fire which signals to the palace that all is well. Includes historical notes.

Desmond, ruler of a kingdom on the island of Eire, promises his daughter's hand to the prince who brings him the most wonderful bird.

When a marauding cat threatens the fat carp in the pond of the Summer Palace in Peking, only the wise fish Wo Ti knows how they can save themselves.

Mr. Griggs so loves his work at the post office that he thinks of it all the time and everything reminds him of it.

A collection of simple retellings of stories from both the Old and New Testaments.

"Readers are told the story of Helen Martini's care for lion and tiger cubs, and her emergence as the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper"--

A collection of fourteen classic fairy tales, including Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Beauty and the Beast.