Anna Was Here

By Jane Kurtz

In the Small, Small Night

By Jane Kurtz

Kofi can't sleep in his new home in the United States, so his older sister Abena soothes his fears about life in a different country by telling him two folktales from their native Ghana about the n...

In the Small, Small Night

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Almaz And the Lion

By Jane Kurtz

Mamo On the Mountain

By Jane Kurtz

Faraway Home

By Jane Kurtz

Desta's father, who needs to return briefly to his Ethiopian homeland, describes what it was like for him to grow up there.

Trouble

By Jane Kurtz

A retelling of a traditional Eritrean tale in which a young goatherd disobeys his father by inadvertently trading away the board game that was supposed to keep him out of trouble.

The Storyteller's Beads

By Jane Kurtz

During the political strife and famine of the 1980's, two Ethiopian girls, one Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many difficulties, including their prejudices about eac...

Miro in the kingdom of the sun

By Jane Kurtz

A young Inca girl succeeds where her brothers and others have failed, when her bird friends help her find the special water that will cure the king's son.

Fire on the mountain Soar to success

By Jane Kurtz