Rachel Isadora

Recasts in an African setting the familiar fairy tale in which a beautiful girl with extraordinarily long hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.

Ben wants to be a trumpeter, but plays only an imaginary instrument until one of the musicians in a neighborhood night club discovers his ambition.

In a village on the African plains, a little girl stalls bedtime by saying good night to various animals and objects.

A little girl greets people in her neighborhood in many different languages.

A version of the cumulative song "The Green Grass Grew All Around," set in Africa.

A simplified version of the tale in which a girl proves that she is a real princess by feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds.

Jomar greets his neighbors using slang, but his grandfather wants to hear some more traditional words.

Sets the traditional Christmas carol in Africa, using a combination of text and rebuses. Includes author's note about some of the African traditions depicted.

Twilight signals the end of the day for the people of Johannesburg, South Africa, while only two hundred miles away the setting sun lets the animals of Kruger National Park know it is time to wake up and begin their nightly activities in the cool of the dark.

"A diverse group of children have fun enjoying the highlights of all four seasons"--