Hugo the hedgehog repeatedly outwits Olek the fox, until Olek decides that he has had enough of being fooled

When the rabbi tells Mendel to get a table for the Chanukah menorah, Mendel makes the task more difficult than it should be

Before rescuing a beautiful maiden and making her his bride, Janek the cobbler must perform two seemingly impossible tasks and answer a riddle

Featuring Polish folk tales, this work includes stories such as 'The King Who Was Eaten by Mice', 'The Gingerbread Baker's Bees from Torun', 'The Golden Duck from Warsaw', and the legendary story 'The Dragon of Krakow, and Queen Jurata and the Sea-Creatures' - which explains why amber can be found lying all over the Baltic shores.

Relates the traditional Polish folktale of a miller's daughter who is taught to read by an old beggar woman and, because of her reading ability, is able to outwit an evil enchanter

Six fairy tales feature an enchanted hedgehog, a tailor who sews up the clouds, a flamebird who steals a golden apple, a jester who fools the king, a rivalry between a fox and wolf, and a wicked goblin (view table of contents)

Product Description: Jan Pienkowski brings traditional Polish fairy tales to life with vibrant and witty paper-cut illustrations.Dragons and kings, frogs and spells, witches and mermaids — all the hallmark characters of traditional Polish fairy tales are found in this magical collection...read more

Presents retellings of traditional Polish tales including 'How the Princess Learned to Laugh,' 'Pan Twardowski,' 'Where Devils are Helpless,' and 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice'

Tells stories of sorcerers, woodcutters, princes, devils, magic spells, fools, and families

The people of Krakow are terrified by a dragon until the shoemaker's apprentice devises a plan to rid the town of the monster.

A magician who wants to go to the moon sells his soul to the devil to accomplish his objective.

At Christmas, Marta, a Polish girl, unhesitatingly breaks off pieces of her own blessed Nativity straw to share with her ill grandmother and other humble villagers, and in giving them away, her blessings return to her.

Product Description: Enchanting, wicked and often very funny, Poland's folk tales are one of the great treasures of Central Europe. Crowned by the story of The Mermaid of Warsaw, the eight colourful tales in this collection include Skarbnik's Second Breakfast, set deep in the Wieliczka salt mines, The Turnip-Counter from Karkonosze and The Copper Coin of Wineta, alongside stories from, Poznan and the Polish lakes...read more

In an effort to cure her own baby of his incessant crying, a mother inadvertently starts an epidemic of crying babies in her village.

Product Description: Polish Customs, Traditions, & Folklore is organized by months beginning with December and Advent, St. Nicholas Day, the Wigilia (Christmas Eve) nativity plays, caroling and then New Year celebrations. It proceeds from the Shrovetide period to Ash Wednesday, Lent, the celebration of spring, Holy Week customs then superstitions, beliefs and rituals associated with farming, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, midsummer celebrations, harvest festivities, wedding rites, nameday celebrations, birth and death rituals...read more

An arrogant king precipitates a situation whose solution brings together an ordinary family and a royal family from the small Jewish town of Chelm