Arcadia Public Library

"Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The answers lay in their sacred stories. Author María García Esperón, illustrator Amanda Mijangos, and translator...

In this humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale, a cockroach interviews her suitors in order to decide whom to marry.

When they are left in the woods by their parents, two children find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.

When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and the whole town enjoys a feast.