Gerald McDermott Books
Daniel O'Rourke
Because of a pooka spirit, Daniel O'Rourke embarks on a fantastic journey.
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Tim O'Toole and the Wee Folk
Tim O’Toole and his wife, Kathleen, are so poor they have not a penny or a potato between them. Even their cats are too skinny for the mice to chase! When Tim goes out to find a job, he stumbles up...
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Flecha al Sol
"A translation of McDermott's Caldecott winner. In this Pueblo folktale, a boy is transformed into an arrow so that he may travel between the sun and the Earth to search for his father. The wonderf...
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The voyage of Osiris
After Osiris, the beloved pharaoh of Egypt, is supplanted by his evil brother Set, Isis uses her love and devotion to restore him as Lord of the Underworld.
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Jabut! the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon
All the birds enjoy the song-like flute music of Jabuti, the tortoise, except Vulture who, jealous because he cannot sing, tricks Jabuti into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King o...
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The fox and the stork
A retelling of the La Fontaine fable in which a stork finds a way to outwit the fox that tricked him.
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