"In this African version of the traditional folktale Stone Soup, Noko the porcupine tricks the other well fed but selfish animals into sharing their food with him and the whole village"--Verso page.

The Dragon Masters are still reeling from the desertion of Rori and her fire dragon Vulcan, when Mina, a Dragon Master from the far north, arrives with a problem--King Lars needs a fire dragon to defeat the Ice Giant who has frozen his kingdom; and so the Dragon Masters set out to find Rori and convince her to help.

Forced to live in a false happily ever after, Lena and the other giants must live as humans with no memory of their former lives until Lena hatches a plan to thwart the fairy queens' magic and save the genie Jin.

A gingerbread man searches all over the school for the group of children that made him and then left him to cool.

"Lena has a problem: she is a twelve-year-old giant child, but she is still only the size of a human: rejected by the giant king, she and her enormous talking cat, Rufus, go down to the human world seeking some magic that will restore her to her rightful status. Jin is a twelve-year-old genie, not yet allowed his full powers, and at the moment tied--for two more wishes--to the Golden King, an annoying, nasty tyrant who has sent him on a quest. When...

When a demon from Jewish lore threatens the Tree of Life, a source of untold power and immortality, Anna Ballinkay and Colin Pierce enter the Otherworld to stop him, where they discover that the true danger is closer than they think. "Anna and Colin defeated the King of the Dead on Halloween, saving their home, the magical Ravenfall Inn. Now, with Hannukah approaching, they're looking forward to exploring their new powers--and maybe enjoying a little...

"Eleven-year-old Max Watson is always up for adventure, but giants and dragons? That might be too much. Queen Buttercup has been kidnapped; without her magic, the home of the fairies will disappear forever. Max and his sisters must face off against a pair of giants and a pack of dragons in their most dangerous mission yet. Will they find Queen Buttercup in time or will they end up as dragon food? Follow the Watson children as they journey through...

An abridged version of the tale of Scheherazade, daughter of King Shahryar's advisor, who tells her husband, the king, a different story every night to keep him from fulfilling his plan to kill her in the morning.

""I wish fairytales were real," sighed little Lucy. And that was all it took for Hector and his band of merry friends to go in search of a real giant. There was a rumor that a new, enormous, shadowy stranger was living in the Forbidden Marsh beyond the forest ... and since it was not a bear it must be a fairytale giant! With twists and turns and a capsized boat, the five friends venture far from home and make a surprising discovery -- a huge discovery!"--Publisher....

Pepper and Jake, sister and brother shepherds, match wits with the giant, Urk, who regularly floods their valley with his dirty washwater.