Education Resource Area: Traditional Lit - Legends/Epics

Dick Whittington and His Cat by Melisande Potter (Illustrator); Margaret Hodges (Retold by)

Chukfi Rabbit's Big, Bad Bellyache by Greg Rodgers (As told by); Leslie Stall Widener (Illustrator)

The Mitten String by Jennifer Rosner; Kristina Swarner (Illustrator)

Lost Cities by Nicola Barber

The Littlest Mountain by Barb Rosenstock; Melanie Hall (Illustrator)

Finn McCool and the Great Fish by Eve Bunting; Zachary Pullen (Illustrator)

The Boy Who Lived with the Bears by Joseph Bruchac

The Magic of Spider Woman by Lois Duncan

Trick of the Tale by John Matthews; Caitlín Matthews; Tomislav Tomic (Illustrator)

The Great Race by Nathan Kumar Scott; Jagdish Chitara

A Ring of Tricksters by Virginia Hamilton; Barry Moser (Illustrator)

Lapin Plays Possum by Sharon Arms Doucet; Scott Cook (Illustrator); S. Doucet

Sticky Doll Trap by Jessica Souhami

Monkey by Gerald McDermott

Just in Case by Yuyi Morales (Illustrator)

Pig-Boy by Gerald McDermott

The Sacred Banana Leaf by Nathan Kumar Scott; Radhashyam Raut (Artist)

Zomo the Rabbit by Gerald McDermott

Jabuti the Tortoise by Gerald McDermott (Illustrator)

Raven by Gerald McDermott

Love and Roast Chicken by Barbara Knutson (Illustrator)

The Tale of Tricky Fox by Jim Aylesworth; Barbara Mcclintock (Illustrator)

Please, Malese! by Amy MacDonald; Emily Lisker (Illustrator)

Brigid's Cloak by Bryce Milligan; Helen Cann (Illustrator)

Tales of King Arthur by Hudson Talbott (Illustrator); Peter Glassman (Afterword by)

The Otter, the Spotted Frog and the Great Flood by Gerald Hausman; Ramon Shiloh (Illustrator)

Jangles by David Shannon (Illustrator)

The Hero Beowulf by Eric A. Kimmel; Leonard Everett Fisher (Illustrator)

Merlin and the Dragons by Jane Yolen; Ming Li (Illustrator)

William Tell by Leonard Everett Fisher (Illustrator)

The Tortoise and the Hare by Jerry Pinkney

The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind by Susan Gaber (Illustrator); Aesop; Heather Forest (Retold by)

The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

Paul Bunyan by David L. Harrison; John Kanzler (Illustrator)

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch by Anne Isaacs; Kevin Hawkes (Illustrator)

Pecos Bill by Paul Tong (Illustrator)

McBroom Tells the Truth by Sid Fleischman; Amy Wummer (Illustrator)

Dust Devil by Anne Isaacs; Paul O. Zelinsky (Illustrator)

Peggony-Po by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)

The Sons of the Dragon King by Ed Young (Illustrator)

Gilgamesh the Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean; David Parkins (Illustrator)

Rider in the Dark by Victoria Holmes

Odin's Ravens by K. L. Armstrong; M. A. Marr

The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs by William Joyce (Illustrator)

The Adventures of Odysseus by Peter Malone (Illustrator); Neil Philip

Beowulf by Gareth Hinds (Adapted by, Illustrator)

The Arkadians by Lloyd Alexander

Lugalbanda by Kathy Henderson; Jane Ray (Illustrator)