Kimmel, Eric A.
Summary: Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: A young man's kindness to an old beggar woman earns him his weight in gold and half a kingdom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: Captain Ahab takes his crew on a mission to find Moby Dick, the great white whale that crippled him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: Traces the life of the last emperor to rule the Aztec empire in Central America before it was conquered by the Spaniards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MONKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: A princess promises to marry the prince who finds the most precious treasure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.21 KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1994
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: A young girl brings her pets to the library--with predictably disastrous results.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E KIMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: An adaptation of a Japanese folktale in which a feudal lord seeks a samurai cat to rid his castle of a savage rat, but soon discovers that violence is not always the best way to accomplish things.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2095 KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.24 KIMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Kimmel 1988Kimmel, Eric A.
Summary: When a terrible witch vows to eat her for supper, a little girl escapes with the help of a towel and comb given to her by the witch's cat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: A hot pepper pie exposes the big bad wolf in this southwestern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Children's Pub. 2013
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Summary: Grandma Mina's Persian carpet sends twins Scarlett and Sam to Egypt in the time of Moses, where they come to understand that every Jew was part of the first Passover, and just what made it different from all other nights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: J FIC KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: Retells, with a southwestern United States setting, the traditional tale about three billy goat brothers who trick a beast that lives under the bridge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: "When three Hanukkah latkes fight over which of them tastes the best, the winner is decided by the family cat. Which does he choose?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing 2021
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Summary: Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: Villagers take in a flock of golden birds nearly frozen by an early snow and are rewarded with beautifully decorated eggs the next spring.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: J 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: When a farmer sends his sons on three quests to determine who will inherit the farm, Ivan, who is small and simple, finds good luck and wonderful treasures in a castle filled only with cats in fancy costumes and wigs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: Three moving tales illustrate the wonder of the Jewish High Holidays.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1991
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: A retelling of the Grimm tale about the fisherman's greedy wife, set in the land of the Aztecs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel visits the Emperor, leaving a new housemaid to prepare for his Hanukkah party, but returns to find that she has misused the clay man he created. Includes historical and cultural notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: Stranded on an iceberg on his way to America, Simon remembers his mother's parting words and lights the first candle on his menorah while praying for a miracle, which soon arrives in the form of a friendly polar bear.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney*Hyperion Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: During the Mexican Revolution, when a troop of hungry soldiers comes to a town where all the food has been hidden, they charm the townspeople into helping make a soup from water and a cactus thorn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2007
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: Two married gods disobey their orders and visit Earth, are turned into mortals as punishment, and eventually become mountains so that they will always stand side by side.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: Anansi the Spider steals Hyena's magic stick so he won't have to do the chores, but when the stick's magic won't stop, he gets more than he bargained for.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2001