Terrapin and Possum were friends. They liked to gather persimmon fruit and eat it together in the sun. One day they found a tree with ripe fruit in its...

A long time ago, in the land of the South People, it was time for Pelican Girl to become a woman. A special dance and ceremony was planned, to celebrate...

Coyote was out walking one day when he saw an old woman hurrying towards him. "Turn back! If you keep going that way the giant will get you" she cried. "Giants...

A long time ago, a young man called Crow lived in one of the villages of the Seneca people. His parents had died many years before and he had...

A long time ago a Pawnee hunter was returning home after a day's hunting when he saw a baby bear all alone in the forest. The bear cub looked very...

Once upon a time there lived a woman who had no children. She dreamed of having a little girl, but time went by, and her dream never came...

Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where stands the big, rambling castle in which his toys are manufactured. His workmen, selected from the ryls, knooks, pixies and fairies,...

Once upon a time... there lived an unhappy young girl. Unhappy she was, for her mother was dead, her father had married another woman, a widow with two daughters,...

In the city of Florence, not far from the Piazza del Granduca, runs a little street called Porta Rosa. In this street, just in front of the market-place where...

There was once a merchant who was so rich that he could have paved the whole street with gold, and would even then have had enough for a small...

Once upon a time there was little girl, pretty and dainty. But in summer time she was obliged to go barefooted because she was poor, and in winter she...

Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a Queen sat at a window sewing, and...