Timothy Banks

An illustrated retelling for young readers of the Chinese folktale about a dragon that threatens a village each spring and Mei, the young girl who is destined to defeat him.

While the other members of his clan enjoy wrestling, throwing spears, and fighting, Leif prefers to hike up the mountain and enjoy the peace of his beautiful fjord; but when clan loyalty demands that he participate in the Viking Games--he does the best he can, but when it comes to comparing clan treasures, Leif has a surprise for everybody.

In this combination of two separately published works, J.D. discovers that he is the son of Frankenstein's monster, and armed with the Doctor's journal he sets out to find his "relatives"--the descendents and relations of the people whose body parts Doctor Frankenstein used.

This time fourteen-year-old J.D. is looking for the family of the contributor of his dad's large intestines, and the search leads him to Florida, and his "cousin" Gloria, bodyguard of the Vampire--but when she is wounded protecting J.D. from Frankenstein's daughter, he finds himself obliged to protect the Vampire from the Invisible Man.

Another day, another family member to find! J.D. is the fourteen-year-old son of Frankenstein's monster and is on a quest to find his family . . . the donors of his dad's mismatched parts. But with every cousin he meets, the danger mounts. New monsters lurk at every turn, and Fran will stop at nothing to get her hands on J.D.'s cousins and enlists the help of the Werewolf and the Invisible Man! Readers will be pulled into the delightfully creepy story...

Searching in Los Angeles for the descendant of the man whose right eye was used to create his dad, J.D. discovers that the man, Sam Hammer, is a detective on the trail of a werewolf--and finds himself arrested at the request of Frankenstein's daughter.

"An easy to read fairy tale about the Billy Goats Gruff and how the goats trick a troll living under a bridge. Spanish/English edition includes reading activities and a word list"--

In this humorous adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale, Abe Spoke is the young tailor who sews the words "seven in one stroke" on his belt, but neglects to tell the people he meets that it was seven flies, not seven giants--his cleverness (and chutzpah) win him the hand of the princess, but unfortunately he has a bad habit of muttering about cloth and tailoring in his sleep.

In this humorous adaptation of a lesser-known Grimm fairy tale, Forest Ranger Dan finds a strange baby in a bird's nest and raises him along with his own baby daughter, Cassie; Birdy proves to have magic powers, and the cook at the Dark Woods Station (who is a witch, and makes really horrible food) wants to use him as an ingredient in her latest magic brew--so it is up to Birdy and Cassie to find a way to defeat her, save themselves, and enable the...