(4) 4-6 World of Stories series. Illustrated by Francesca Greenwood. Overall, this series includes a good selection of traditional tales for reading and telling aloud, with each volume grouped by theme. Don sources her stories and tells how she adapts them; Pearson provides no source information and the stories in Magic and Misery are all European, despite the subtitle. Greenwood's black-silhouetted vignettes are a nice detail, if unnecessary. There are two other fall 2016 books in this series. This review covers the following World of Stories titles: Girls and Goddesses, Ghosts and Goblins, and Magic and Misery.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

(4) 4-6 World of Stories series. Illustrated by Francesca Greenwood. Overall, this series includes a good selection of traditional tales for reading and telling aloud, with each volume grouped by theme. Don sources her stories and tells how she adapts them; Pearson provides no source information and the stories in Magic and Misery are all European, despite the subtitle. Greenwood's black-silhouetted vignettes are a nice detail, if unnecessary. There are two other fall 2016 books in this series. This review covers the following World of Stories titles: Girls and Goddesses, Ghosts and Goblins, and Magic and Misery.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

(3) K-3 Fourteen tales from around the world, including "The Snow Child" from Russia, "Raven Boy" from Canada, and "A Song for Hinemoa" from New Zealand, are retold here with lively, engaging language. A few are familiar ("The Pied Piper" and "Stone Soup"), but all are intriguing, whether they are humorous, rowdy, threatening, or sly. Like the text, the borders and paintings are vibrant, and their style changes to reflect the different cultures.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.