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Collects folk tales from Indonesia and Malaysia that relate the adventures of the trickster Mouse Deer, who must think and act quickly to avoid being eaten.
By Kim Gamble (illustrator) and Aaron Shepard

Paperback:

9780938497325 | Skyhook Press, January 1, 2005, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Collects folk tales from Indonesia and Malaysia that relate the adventures of the trickster Mouse Deer, who must think and act quickly to avoid being eaten.

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Collects folk tales from Indonesia and Malaysia that relate the adventures of the trickster Mouse Deer, who must think and act quickly to avoid being eaten.
By Kim Gamble (illustrator) and Aaron Shepard

Paperback:

9780938497318 | Skyhook Press, January 1, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Collects folk tales from Indonesia and Malaysia that relate the adventures of the trickster Mouse Deer, who must think and act quickly to avoid being eaten.

While selling dozens of cookies on Saint Nicholas Eve, Van Amsterdam is chastised by a woman who insists that a dozen should really be thirteen for generous bakers

Reinforced:

9780606171922 | Demco Media, September 1, 1999, cover price $13.70 | About this edition: A baker in colonial New York learns the importance of generosity from an old woman who visits his shop on St.

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While selling dozens of cookies on Saint Nicholas Eve, Van Amsterdam is chastised by a woman who insists that a dozen should really be thirteen for generous bakers

Paperback:

9780689830563, titled "The Baker's Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale" | Aladdin Paperbacks, October 1, 1999, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: A baker in colonial New York learns the importance of generosity from an old woman who visits his shop on St.

School and Library:

9780689802980, titled "The Baker's Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale" | Atheneum, October 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A baker in colonial New York learns the importance of generosity from an old woman who visits his shop on St.

Prebinding:

9780613228183, titled "Baker's Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale" | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $14.15 | About this edition: A baker in colonial New York learns the importance of generosity from an old woman who visits his shop on St.

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A legend of colonial America in which a greedy baker learns the importance of generosity in business, thus initiating the custom of the 'baker's dozen.'

Hardcover:

9780684195773 | Scribner, September 1, 1994, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A legend of colonial America in which a greedy baker learns the importance of generosity in business, thus initiating the custom of the 'baker's dozen.

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Mi Nuong, the sheltered and privileged daughter of a mandarin comes to understand the consequences of her naive, yet cruel, words to a fisherman. By the author of The Sea King's Daughter.

School and Library:

9780689815515 | Atheneum, August 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The sheltered and privileged daughter of a mandarin comes to understand the consequences of her naive, yet cruel, words to a fisherman

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The Calif of Bagdad and his trusted vizier are transformed into storks by the spell of an evil sorcerer, and it is up to a beautiful princess to help them reverse the enchantment. BOMC Alt.

School and Library:

9780395653777 | Clarion Books, April 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Calif of Bagdad and his trusted vizier are transformed into storks by the spell of an evil sorcerer, and it is up to a beautiful princess to help them reverse the enchantment

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A well-intentioned fortune-telling peasant unwittingly tricks a band of local thieves into returning the king's stolen treasure
By Alisher Dianov (illustrator) and Aaron Shepard

School and Library:

9780395811337 | Clarion Books, August 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A well-intentioned fortune-telling peasant unwittingly tricks a band of local thieves into returning the king's stolen treasure

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Product Description: Though Wali Dad lives in a hut, he feels he needs nothing more than he has. So when he sees that the coins he has saved have filled a pot to the brim, he isn't sure what to do with the money. At last he buys a lovely gold bracelet and sends it as a gift to the Queen of Khaistan...read more

School and Library:

9780684194455, titled "The Gifts of Wali Dad: A Tale of India and Pakistan" | Atheneum, May 1, 1995, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An Indian/Pakistani folktale in which an impoverished grass-cutter finds that gifts can be a mixed blessing

Prebinding:

9780613445573 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 1995, cover price $25.35 | About this edition: Though Wali Dad lives in a hut, he feels he needs nothing more than he has.

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A church sexton, known for his wild tales, has three weird encounters with magical cats and can't convince Father Allen that they really happened, until the priest's cat shows an intense interest.
By Aaron Shepard and Kristin Sorra (illustrator)

Paperback:

9781442412569, titled "King O' the Cats" | Reprint edition (Atheneum, January 19, 2010), cover price $11.99

School and Library:

9780689820823 | Atheneum, July 27, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A church sexton, known for his wild tales, has three weird encounters with magical cats and can't convince Father Allen that they really happened, until the priest's cat shows an intense interest.

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Product Description: Lady White is a thousand-year-old snake who, through centuries of meditation and self-discipline, has managed to attain human form. On a visit to China's famous West Lake, she falls in love with a young man and soon becomes his wife...read more
By Aaron Shepard (other contributor) and Song Nan Zhang (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9781572270749 | Bilingual edition (Pan Asian Pubns, April 1, 2001), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Lady White is a thousand-year-old snake who, through centuries of meditation and self-discipline, has managed to attain human form.
9781572270732 | Pan Asian Pubns, April 1, 2001, cover price $16.95
9781572270725 | Pan Asian Pubns, April 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of a white snake and a blue snake in the Chinese city of Hangzhou who disguise themselves as young ladies to see what it would be like to be human.
9781572270756 | Bilingual edition (Pan Asian Pubns, April 1, 2001), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Lady White is a thousand-year-old snake who, through centuries of meditation and self-discipline, has managed to attain human form.

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Product Description: "One of the books every boy should have on his bookshelf." -- Examiner.com No outlaw could draw as fast as Lightning Larry. But what really terrified those bad men was that peculiar gun of his. It didn't shoot bullets. It shot light...read more

Paperback:

9780938497271 | Skyhook Press, January 1, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "One of the books every boy should have on his bookshelf.
9780938497288 | Skyhook Press, January 1, 2005, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: Shooting bolts of light instead of bullets, Lightning Larry changes the town of Brimstone into a friendly, happy place.

School and Library:

9780684194332 | Atheneum, March 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Shooting bolts of light instead of bullets, Lightning Larry changes the town of Brimstone into a friendly, happy place

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Because his artwork is too realistic--a painted sun starts a fire--expert sign painter Slappy Hooper has difficulty in getting a job, until an out-of-this-world assignment from the Heavenly Sign Company keeps him busy all day long.
By Toni Goffe (illustrator) and Aaron Shepard

School and Library:

9780684195353 | Atheneum, September 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Slappy Hooper, the world's biggest, fastest, bestest sign painter, gets in all kinds of trouble with his amazingly realistic signs

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When a piece of beautiful brocade, inspired by a painting of the Sun Palace, floats away from the widow who made it, her son, Chen, follows the cloth to the palace and meets the fairies who live there, who want to weave as well as his mother does.
By Frank P. Araujo (trans), Xiao-Jun Li (illustrator), Xiaojun Li (illustrator) and Aaron Shepard

Hardcover:

9781572270657 | Pan Asian Pubns, October 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When a piece of beautiful brocade, inspired by a painting of the Sun Palace, floats away from the widow who made it, her son, Chen, follows the cloth to the palace and meets the fairies who live there, who want to weave as well as his mother does.

Retells an African epic tale about an infant born walking and talking, who defies all of his father's attempts to kill him.

Paperback:

9780938497394 | Skyhook Press, January 30, 2008, cover price $2.99 | About this edition: Retells an African epic tale about an infant born walking and talking, who defies all of his father's attempts to kill him.
9780938497387 | Skyhook Press, August 3, 2007, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Retells an African epic tale about an infant born walking and talking, who defies all of his father's attempts to kill him.

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In a classic Finnish tale of romance from the epic Kalevala, beautiful Aila is being courted by two gentlemen who are desperately trying to win her affection, but neither of them know that she has secretly agreed with her mother not to marry either of them.
By Carol Schwartz (illustrator) and Aaron Shepard

School and Library:

9780689804854 | Atheneum, May 1, 1996, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An incident from the Finnish national epic, The Kalevala, in which two friends become rivals for the hand of the maiden of Northland

An incident from the Finnish national epic, The Kalevala, in which two friends become rivals for the hand of the maiden of Northland

Hardcover:

9780684196848 | Scribner, September 1, 1996, cover price $25.01 | About this edition: An incident from the Finnish national epic, The Kalevala, in which two friends become rivals for the hand of the maiden of Northland

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A stubborn young prince goes to work for an evil troll where he falls in love with a captive maiden
By Pauline Ellison (illustrator) and Aaron Shepard

Hardcover:

9780803718210 | Dial Books for Young Readers, June 1, 1997, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A stubborn young prince goes to work for an evil troll where he falls in love with a captive maiden

Library:

9780803718227 | Dial Books for Young Readers, June 1, 1997, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: A stubborn young prince goes to work for an evil troll where he falls in love with a captive maiden

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Assured that he is the one and only Master Man, Shadusa brags to all about his strength and power, yet when another Master Man declares his superiority, a challenge will soon take place.
By Aaron Shepard and David Wisniewski (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780688137830 | William Morrow & Co, December 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A boastful strong man learns a lesson harder than his muscles when he encounters one of Nigeria's superheroes in this Hausa tale which explains the origin of thunder.

Library:

9780688137847 | William Morrow & Co, December 1, 2000, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: A boastful strong man learns a lesson harder than his muscles when he encounters one of Nigeria's superheroes in this Hausa tale which explains the origin of thunder.

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The Monkey King, having hatched from a stone four hundred years ago and reached the heights of worldly greatness, sets out on a quest to learn how to become one of the Immortals.

Paperback:

9780938497264 | Skyhook Press, April 18, 2005, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: The Monkey King, having hatched from a stone four hundred years ago and reached the heights of worldly greatness, sets out on a quest to learn how to become one of the Immortals.
9780938497257 | Skyhook Press, January 10, 2005, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Monkey King, having hatched from a stone four hundred years ago and reached the heights of worldly greatness, sets out on a quest to learn how to become one of the Immortals.

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