Feeling that the arrival of a new baby has stopped her parents from loving her, Yoshiko goes to live among the cranes, whose magic transforms her into one of their young for a while.

The Crane Girl

Children's Books

Charles, Veronika Martenova

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Stoddart Kids

Feeling that the arrival of a new baby has stopped her parents from loving her, Yoshiko goes to live among the cranes, whose magic transforms her into one of their young for a while.

Orchard Books

Canadian Children's Book Centre "Our Choice" Award 2002 Honour Title, Storytelling World Award 2002 
Long ago, a Seneca tribe lived on the Niagara River, just upstream from a great waterfall. With plenty of fish and crops to feed them, life was good in their village. Then a sickness came to the people, and everything changed. As the situation worsened and people died, Lelawala, the chief’s daughter, came up with a plan to help. She would go to the thunder god, Hinu, and find out why he wouldn’t help her people. But to do that, Lelawala would have to go to his home under the great falls, and never return.

Maiden of the Mist: A Legend of Niagara Falls

Literature & Fiction

Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd

Having been warned not to open the door for anyone while Mom goes to help a neighbor, the three boys try to outdo each other by telling scary stories about strangers at the door. By the time they have finished, they have scared themselves under the bed. Stories in this book come from Bohemia, the Guyanas, and Peru and are based on the universal theme of not opening the door to strangers.

Don't Open the Door!: Easy-To-Read Spooky Tales

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Don't Go Into the Forest! (Easy-To-Read Spooky Tales)

This time the boys find themselves in cottage country making up spooky tales about staying out of the forest. Tales from the Philippines and Native American legends are told until the boys can almost see strange characters at their dinner table that night.

Don't Go into the Forest! (Easy-to-Read Spooky Tales)

Tundra Books

Having been warned not to open the door for anyone while Mom goes to help a neighbor, the three boys try to outdo each other by telling scary stories about strangers at the door. By the time they have finished, they have scared themselves under the bed. Stories in this book come from Bohemia, the Guyanas, and Peru and are based on the universal theme of not opening the door to strangers.

Don't Open the Door! (Easy-to-Read Spooky Tales)

Having been warned to stay away from the high waters of the local creek, the boys’ imaginations run as swiftly as the stream. Before they know it, they have scared themselves silly with stories like The Children with Green Teeth, from Britain; The Deadly Beach, from Hawaii; and The Waterman, from Central Europe.

Don't Go Near the Water! (Easy-to-Read Spooky Tales)

Ghostly tales of strange things lurking in forbidden places tie these three stories together. The boys have been warned not to go into a certain room while they are pet-sitting for the neighbor, but, of course, their bravado leads to a session of one-upmanship and the distinct possibility that the cats they are looking after may not be cats at all. Stories from Russia, the United States, and the West Indies are highlighted.

Don't Go In There! (Easy-to-Read Spooky Tales)

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The Crane Girl

The Crane Girl

Maiden of the Mist: A Legend of Niagara Falls

The Crane Girl

Don't Open the Door!: Easy-To-Read Spooky Tales

Don't Go Into the Forest! (Easy-To-Read Spooky Tales)

Don't Go into the Forest! (Easy-to-Read Spooky Tales)

Don't Open the Door! (Easy-to-Read Spooky Tales)

Don't Go Near the Water! (Easy-to-Read Spooky Tales)

Don't Go In There! (Easy-to-Read Spooky Tales)