Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When the clever spider Anansi runs into difficulty on his long journey, he calls on his six sons for help.

Product Description: Book Details:Format: HardcoverPublication Date: 4/6/2009Pages: 32Reading Level: Age 4 and Up

Product Description: Viking is proud to announce a special 30th anniversary hardcover edition of Arrow to the Sun, Gerald McDermott's powerful rendering of an ancient Pueblo Indian legend. A true classic that has taken its place in the pantheon of children's literature, this book vividly evokes the Native American reverence for the source of all life--the Solar Fire...read more

A group of crows gives a trickster coyote a dose of his own medicine when they tire of his conceited bragging after they agree to teach him how to dance, sing, and fly

Product Description: Fox thinks he’s very smart when he plays a trick on Stork, but Stork outfoxes Fox--and shows him that a friend who tricks another is no friend at all. Caldecott Medalist Gerald McDermott retells a familiar trickster tale, bringing warmth and humor to the story that readers young and old will enjoy...read more

Product Description: Of all the animals in the rain forest, Jabutí was the favorite. His shell was smooth and shiny, and the songs he played on his flute were sweet.But his music was a reminder, too, of the mischievous pranks Jabutí sometimes played...read more

Arguably, the church's greatest challenge in the next century will be the problem of the scandal of particularity. More than ever before, Christians will need to explain why they follow Jesus and not the Buddha or Confucius or Krishna or Muhammed. But if, while relating their faith to the faiths, Christians treat non-Christian religions as netherworlds of unmixed darkness, the church's message will be a scandal not of particularity but of arrogant obscurantism. // Recent evangelical introductions to the problem of other religions have built commendably on foundations laid by J. N. D. Anderson and Stephen Neill. Anderson and Neill opened up the "heathen" worlds to the evangelical West, showing that many non-Christians also seek salvation and have personal relationships with their gods. In the last decade Clark Pinnock and John Sanders have argued for an inclusivist understanding of salvation, and Harold Netland has shed new light on the question of truth in the religions. Yet no evangelicals have focused--as nonevangelicals Keith Ward, Diana Eck and Paul Knitter have done--on the revelatory value of truth in non-Christian religions. Anderson and Neill showed that there are limited convergences between Christian and non-Christian traditions, and Pinnock has argued that there might be truths Christians can learn from religious others. But as far as I know, no evangelicals have yet examined the religions in any sort of substantive way for what Christians can learn without sacrificing, as Knitter and John Hick do, the finality of Christ. // This book is the beginning of an evangelical theology of the religions that addresses not the question of salvation but the problem of truth and revelation, and takes seriously the normative claims of other traditions. It explores the biblical propositions that Jesus is the light that enlightens every person (Jn 1:9) and that God has not left Himself without a witness among non-Christian traditions (Acts 14:17). It argues that if Saint Augustine learned from Neo-Platonism to better understand the gospel, if Thomas Aquinas learned from Aristotle to better understand the Scriptures, and if John Calvin learned from Renaissance humanism, perhaps evangelicals may be able to learn from the Buddha--and other great religious thinkers and traditions--things that can help them more clearly understand God's revelation in Christ. It is an introductory word in a conversation that I hope will go much further among evangelicals. (Gerald McDermott, in the introduction to Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions?)

Product Description: Playing on the phrase, the author and you which is a commonly taught reading comprehension strategy that teaches the learner how to look at the words of an author and make inferences about what is being said, this new series will assist the teacher and teacher librarian in understanding the underlying purposes of the author as they prepare learning activities for their students...read more

A very poor Irishman is provided with magical things by the 'wee folk,' but he must then keep his good fortune out of the hands of the greedy McGoons

Alive with color, textures, and shapes, a beautifully illustrated version of the creation story from the book of Genesis pays tribute to life, imagination, and the world around us. 75,000 first printing.

Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom

Raven, a Pacific Coast Indian trickster, sets out to find the sun.

In this retelling of an Aztec myth, Lord of the Night sends Wind to free the four musicians that the Sun is holding prisoner so they can bring joy to the world.

Retells the story of the Nativity, in which Mary gives birth to the Light of the World.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Papagayo, the noisy parrot, helps the night animals save the moon from being eaten up by the moon dog.