Bestselling Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths Books for 7 Year Olds

This 80-page edition of AESOP’S FABLES introduces young readers to Aesop’s classic fables in a fun and accessible way. Ann McGovern retells the classic fables using kid-friendly language, and there are striking black-and-white illustrations throughout.

What happens when an old dog sitting at the dinner table with his master slides a whole leg of lamb, a big bowl of posole, a stack of tortillas and a bottle of wine to a coyote, who just happens to be under the table? A whole ruckus, that’s what!

But that’s nothing compared with some of the other wild and wonderful folktales gathered by author Joe Hayes in this bilingual edition of The Coyote Under the Table. Like his signature collection The Day It Snowed Tortillas, this book is full of lively characters and laugh-out-loud stories. There’s a trio of unsuitable suitors who court a clever young girl and end up being scared out of their wits one midnight in a haunted church. And a greedy man who learns his lesson on a day when he couldn’t stop dancing. And a spotted cat who is actually a guardian angel in disguise.

“Once again Hayes intrigues and amuses with this charming compilation.”
—Booklist

“These wise and witty tales continue to repay fresh encounters.”
—Kirkus Reviews

Joe Hayes is a nationally recognized author and storyteller. Joe lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and travels extensively throughout the United States, visiting schools and storytelling festivals.

Antonio Castro L. was born in Zacatecas, Mexico. He has illustrated dozens of children’s books including other Joe Hayes classics Pájaro Verde and The Day It Snowed Tortillas (Cinco Puntos Press), as wells as Barry, the Bravest Saint Bernard (Random House) and The Life of Louis Pasteur (Twenty-First Century Books). He lives in El Paso, Texas.

Famous American Folktales gathers the most famous and shared folktales. Beautifully illustrated, it is a perfect book for bedtime. It will include: “The Phantom Train of Marshall Pass,”” Sasquatch,” “The Maid in the Mist,” “Paul Bunyan and the Hard Winter,” “Moll Pitcher the Fortune Teller,” “Guardian of Yosemite,” and “Jackalope.”

J. E. Bright lives in Washington Heights, New York. He has written more than ninety novels, novelizations, novelty books, storybook apps, and nonfiction books for young readers and young adults. This is his second book to be published with Auzou. The first one is American Fun Facts.

Mark Turner’s beautiful children’s book, A Winter’s Tale: How Raven Gave Light to the World, is a sensitive retelling of the Native American creation myth, of how Raven, transformed into a child, stole light from the mythical grandfather who held it as a treasure, and bestowed it upon a world encased in darkness. Shared among numerous Native American tribes, the Raven’s trickery is well-known. However, what makes Turner’s contemporary narrative so compelling is the role the child plays in retrieving light from the loving metaphorical grandfather, the empowerment the child receives from that love, and how, transforming into the Raven, the child takes flight into a world that needed the penultimate gift: light itself. A Winter’s Tale is beautifully presented, with 33 wonderful full-color illustrations by Emily Graves and Mark Turner’s accompanying musical score on compact disc. Children will delight not only in the story retold but in the combined visual and auditory interpretations of the Raven myth.

With bold illustrations that will capture the attention of children, this collection gathers 20 of famous French fabulist La Fontaine’s most well-known tales, including “The Milkmaid and Her Pail,” “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” “The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs,” and “The Tortoise and the Hare.”

 Con ilustraciones vivas que captarán la atención de los niños, esta colección reúne 20 de los cuentos mejores conocidos del fabulista famoso francés La Fontaine, incluyendo “La lechera,” “La cigarra y la hormiga,” “La gallina de los huevos de oro” y “La liebre y la tortuga.”

So begins this account of the author’s great-great-grandmother Jane, and how she meets a slave new to the plantation, a slave who would prove to have magical powers . . . created by the wish for freedom. Alice McGill remembers this story, passed down in her family through the generations, from her childhood and how her greatgrandmother told it to her “as if unveiling a great, wonderful secret. My siblings and I believed that certain Africans shared this gift of taking to the air—’way up and over everything.’”