Read Me a Story, Ink

When Mr Bear, so called by the townspeople because he is so grumpy, encounters a traveling carnival and a sad and mistreated dancing bear, he decides to buy the bear's freedom. Cutting the bear's shackles and destroying its cage, Mr Bear sets the bear free along with his own heart.

A wonderful modern translation/adaptation of a fairy tale from Brittany in which Pereg-Mari shows kindness to an old beggar woman who, in the way of fairytales, is really the queen of the Korrigans. But the Korrigans are tricky people and Pereg-Mari isn't sure he can trust her reward.

From Ms Banks delightful anthology "The Magic Hare," a Dickensian tale in which a hateful queen is transformed by the practical and kind suggestions of the magic hare.

A nicely written short biography of Clara Foltz, the women who in 1878 brought the Woman Lawyer's Bill before the California legislature and went on to become the first woman attorney on the west coast.

Nesha had within her the kiss of winter so she journeyed north where her curse could do no harm. In the land of the ice bear, what had been a curse was considered a gift because there, weather was warming, threatening their existence.

On Chester's eleventh birthday, his father announces that it's time for him to build an iceboat, just as he and his grandfather had before him. Chester is excited to build the craft but is unsure if he has the skill to sail it by himself.

Amy loves to hear the stories connected to each button in her grandma's button box. When her grandma passes away on Christmas Eve, her final present to Amy is already under the Christmas tree – the button box so that Amy can add her own stories.

Two commanders, one human, one alien, have been best friends for a lifetime but now find their empires at war and with five minutes left in an ultimatum, five minutes before they blow each other to smithereens, a phone call? "Raymond?" "Mom?" "It's mother's day, you're too busy to call your mother?"

When their mother dies, four sisters disguise themselves as men and find apprenticeships with a tailor, a hunter, a thief and a stargazer. At the end of their apprenticeships, each is given a magic tool. Both the skills and the magic are critical when they are enlisted to save the young king's betrothed and her four brothers from a loathsome dragon.

Katherine, a young witch, has dyslexia and can't ever get spells right. But when her friend the garden wizard suggests that she try singing the spells, Katherine succeeds where her classmates failed in charming the Dragon and winning the Dragon's fire to give the village luck.

Mama, Papa and Granny all have peculiar ways of knowing that a big rain is coming – none of them very scientific. But that doesn't stop Papa from building a raft the size of an ark for the great flood of 1908.

When Sarah's grandma was fourteen and living in England, she fell out of the hayloft but never hit the ground. That was the day she discovered she could fly with the help of a little magic leftover from times pasts.

Mr. Runkle grows only orderly vegetables while his neighbor, Miss Appleby's garden is a tangle of bright flowers with the exception of one gigantic, prize winning pumpkin.

Jared loved artifact hunting at his grand parents farm. But each summer a local pack of wild dogs was getting bolder. They had already killed Nick, grandpa's courageous hound. When Jared came face to face with the pack, only one thing could save him.

A traditional fairytale for all ages beautifully retold by award-winning British author, Adele Geras. 

Two of the King's guards pay a young man to show them the way to Aliforde the Woodcutter's hut.  But when they arrive the humble woodcutter bests them both by sword revealing his true identity as the King's Personal Champion, self-exiled after an accidental killing of a rival. But the King has a new son, and he needs his trusted champion back to teach the young prince the way of the Knight.

According to legend, if you see a leprechaun and don't take your eyes off him, he must take you to his pot of gold, which is just what a traveling tradesman does. However, in the end, he is outwitted by the leprechaun's sad but clever story.

A skunk was madly in love with a bear. But the bear, barely noticed the skunk … that is until the skunk saved the bear from hunters and the forest's most unlikely friendship blossomed.

John Michael was poor, but his friend William was dirt poor and that's what decided John Michael to give William all the money he got from selling pecans. He would have loved to buy some sports equipment. but it was more important for William to get a bicycle so that he could get a delivery job and help support his family.

A long time ago, in a kingdom by the sea, there was a Princess as tall and bright as a sunflower, but she refused to wither in the shadow of her betrothed Prince and found greater pleasure in her beloved talking dog.

When a witch goes before the king to ask for the road in front of her house to be repaired, she is told by the king's chief advisor that the king could build castles in the air if he wanted to, rather than talk to her. This gives the witch a clever idea and pretty soon the king is looking down on his kingdom from his castle in the clouds

Arin and her Mom go to the cemetery to tell Arin's Dad that it's okay, that they love him and don't blame him for what happened in the church the night they surprised two burglars. A softly told tale of a ghostly encounter in a graveyard with a nice twist at the end.

When Rooster ducks into the barn to get out of the afternoon rain storm he is surprised to have his sneeze answered by a polite "God bless you, young man." When he realizes it is Miz Mephitis, the skunk, he backs away just a far as he can. But his fear is replaced by curiosity when a right friendly discussion ensues and Rooster learns there is a lot more to skunks than he had imagined.

A very literary and delightful modern translation/adaptation of one of Charles Perrault's most famous fairy tails wherein the youngest son inherits nothing of value except the family cat. But the cat, who is very fond or his young master, proves to be well more that just a cat. Bebooted and behatted, the clever feline finds his master both a kingdom and a wife. For all who love happily ever afters...

A dragon, fearing that he doesn't exist, shares his concern with his friends the griffin, the unicorn and the sphinx. They can offer little to ease his worries but in the end, like Rousseau, he decides, someone imagines, therefore, I am.