A folktale about being different Hunch was different from everyone else. He knew it. They knew it. And his arch rival Tax, who was the best at absolutely everything, never failed to use it against him. However, nobody knew a surprise was at hand, from the Things that lurked deep inside the wood. Things so terrible that nobody has ever been able to describe them!

Learn all about Captain John Taylor and the biggest pirate raid in history in this swashbuckling read Here's a true story that waited 300 years to be told. It's the most exciting moment in pirate history, and yet this little book is the first to tell it! What do pirates love more than anything? That's right--treasure! It was in the year 1721 that a pirate captain named John Taylor took the largest single prize ever on the high seas. He and his crew of mutineers took a bounty that would take 48,000 years to earn on a sailor's wages. The diamonds were bound for the King of Portugal. He had used slaves in India to mine them. Now they belonged to Captain Taylor. Did he share them fairly with his men? Would you? Find out what really happened, and learn some surprising pirate facts in this fun book.

Meet GobDrop--the world's most disgusting goblin. He's no looker, even by goblin standards. If there is one thing that GobDrop hates, it is elves. Especially annoying little musical elves with their silly squeaky voices. Unfortunately, SnowShine--the smallest elf ever--gets lost in the mountains. And guess whose cave he wanders into, carrying his magic bag full of happy songs? Life is a riot when it's goblin versus elf.

This book explores stories of earth creation - how the earth, the rivers, the lakes, the oceans, the mountains, the valleys, the clouds, the sky, and the first animals and people came into being. The earth creation stories of tribal peoples, many of them re-told here for the first time, share common ground when illustrating humanity's fragile position as a tiny cog in an enormous life macrocosm.