Indian Myth

Haneen and Yusuf together with their loving parents, set the scene for the stories' action. Ammi teaches the children that forces of nature are a divine gift in Rain Rain go Away. Ammi explains to Yusuf the true value of fasting during Ramadan. These stories aim to create cross-cultural reading and understanding.

A treasury of imaginative tales including: the Algonquin story of how Glooskap conquered the Great Bull-Frog; "The Meeting of the Wild Animals", a Tsimshian myth; "The Bear Man", a Cherokee legend; and more.

Here are popular fables of the Prairie Indians, retold for children. The tales include stories about how giants brought about the seasons, how the Great Spirit offered the gift of corn, and how a young maiden outsmarted that old trickster, Crow.

Ten-year-old Geetanjali doesn’t mind singing, but she knows she’ll never be as good as her mother, Aai, or grandmother, Aaji, famous classical singers from India whose celebrity has followed the family all the way to their small town of Deadwood, Michigan, where Geetanjali lives with her aai and her father, Baba.

Three fun-loving Anglo-Asian sisters rule the roost since their mom died. They’ve got a reputation at school for being the coolest babes in town, and what they don’t need is an interfering Auntie-ji from India cramping their style. The girls decide the only way out of the problem is an arranged marriage - for their auntie.

After three weeks of vacation, Ash Mistry is ready to leave the heat and dust of India behind him. Then he discovers a gleaming gold arrowhead hidden in the sands - a weapon used to defeat evil King Ravana in legend. At least, Ash is pretty sure it's only a legend… But when Lord Alexander Savage comes after Ash, the legends are suddenly way too real. Savage commands an army of monstrous shape changers called rakshasas, who want only to seize the arrowhead and restore Ravana to power.

Aunty Rose does enough talking for both Uncle Ben and her. One day, though, she learns that some words shouldn't be said.

An elephant accidentally dislodges the nest of a pair of sparrows. But when he refuses to apologize, the sparrows and their friends show him that it's not size but determination that matters.

Jim the woodcutter finds a bird that lays golden eggs. Will greed get the better of Jim?