Washoe County Library System

Beninese storyteller Mama brings together favorite myths from the tropics.

"The MOMENTOUS debut of a groundbreaking Fairy Tale series -- a brilliantly crafted, hilarious twist on this beloved classic, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, from renowned, award-winning, and New York Times bestselling duo and picture book pioneers Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen! Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge,...

Prince Arutha must fight evil to find the mystic herb called Silverthorn (found only in the land of the Spellweavers) and to save Princess Anita, who was poisoned on their wedding day.

A group of scientists undertake an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone to study the effects of global warming. The expedition changes suddenly when the group heads out on a routine foray into a glacial ice cave and makes an astonishing find.

"Caldecott Medalist and #1 New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Jon Klassen delivers a deliciously macabre treat for folktale fans. Jon Klassen's signature wry humor takes a turn for the ghostly in this thrilling retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale. In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when she finds herself lost in the dark forest,...

A historical novel, based on a real-life event, follows the lives of two characters, a newly orphaned girl in 1629 who was shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia, and a lonely boy in 1989 who, over three hundred years later, arrives on the same island, discovering the story of an infamous shipwreck.

An illustrated collection of Vietnamese folktales with explantory notes following each story.

A hobbit named Bilbo Baggins sets out on a great adventure with Gandalf the wizard and some dwarves in order to kill a dragon and finds the One Ring of Power on the way. Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.

Riding a silver-shoed rooster and playing magical music on his bagpipes, a young man who's half hedgehog, half human, wins the hand of a beautiful princess.