McDermott, Gerald.
Summary: All the birds enjoy the song-like flute music of Jabuti, the tortoise, except Vulture who, jealous because he cannot sing, tricks Jabuti into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WLD Culture McDermott 2001McDermott, Gerald.
Summary: In trying to determine which of his six sons to reward for saving his life, Anansi the Spider is responsible for placing the moon in the sky.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 1986
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott McDermottMcDermott, Gerald.
Summary: Raven, a Pacific Coast Indian trickster, sets out to find the sun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MCDMcDermott, Gerald.
Summary: Crocodile wants to feast on Monkey's heart and Monkey must outsmart him if he is to enjoy eating mangoes all day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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Summary: Papagayo, the noisy parrot, helps the night animals save the moon from being eaten up by the moon dog.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCDMcDermott, Gerald.
Summary: A very poor Irishman is provided with magical things by the "wee folk", but he must then keep his good fortune out of the hands of the greedy McGoons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1990
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Summary: Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992
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Summary: Anansi, one of the great folk heroes of the world, is saved from a terrible fate by his six sons in this traditional tale from West Africa.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios, a subsidiary of SCHOLASTIC Inc 1974
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Summary: An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1974
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 299.7 MCDMcDermott, Gerald.
Summary: Coyote, who has a nose for trouble, insists that the blackbirds teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in disaster for him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1994
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.24 MCDMcDermott, Gerald.
Summary: A modern retelling of the biblical story shares the details of how light, water, earth, and living creatures came to be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2003
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Summary: A very poor Irishman is provided with magical things by the "wee folk," but he must then keep his good fortune out of the hands of the greedy McGoons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MCDSummary: Two folktales from Asia. In Tale of the Mandarin ducks: a compassionate couple risk everything to reunite a pair of ducks. In The stonecutter: a lowly Japanese stonecutter dreams of power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2008