Stephen Gammell

Drawn from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings

While playing outside on a rainy day, a little girl peers into a puddle and sees Mudkin, who invites her to become his queen.

Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.

Twelve free verse poems chronicle the events and feelings of a Navajo girl's eleventh year.

Rhyming text and illustrations following a mischievous old black fly through the alphabet as he has a very busy bad day landing where he should not be.

MacDonald tries farming with exotic circus animals, but has better luck with his neighbor's cow, horse, and chicken--or does he?

In this take on the well-known cumulative rhyme, a teacher inadvertently swallows a flea, then follows it with an assortment of classroom pets while her students look on in surprise.

After his family moves to a different part of town, Matthew tries to get back to his old house by trying on different pairs of wings in an unusual wing shop.

A child relates some of the wondrous tales told by an old man who once found a falling star and stood at the end of a rainbow.

In this allegory, the author's reaction to the Holocaust, the animals of the forest are carried away, one type after another, by the Terrible Things, not realizing that if perhaps they would all stick together and not look the other way, such terrible things might not happen.