Barry Moser

A retelling of Andersen's classic tale of a brave soldier who finds love and fortune in a magic tinderbox.

"Illustrator Barry Moser renders the memories of his youth--in luminous drawings and candid prose--on his quest to understand how he and his identically raised brother could have become such very different men"--

Twelve trickster tales that show the migration of African culture to America via the West Indies.

Text and illustrations explore the countryside and people of Appalachia.

Individual craftsmen, artists, and laborers describe the work that they do in Egypt during the time of the Old Kingdom, and the historical note places them in context.

An illustrated retelling of the legend of Saint Jerome and the lion that he sheltered in his monastery.

Describes the month-long visit between world leaders Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt in December 1941, during which they discussed the strategies of the Allied powers in World War II and how to sustain peace after the war would end.

A collection of seventeen poems describing the experience of traveling west during the 1800s, as seen through the eyes of pioneer women.

A mysterious man befriends an unwitting visitor in a nighttime wood filled with hidden danger.

A retelling of a traditional Romanian tale in which the devil turns out to be the most troublesome passenger on Noah's ark.