Jim Weiss

A retelling of three classic tales and one modern "Rap" which include the story of Rip Van Winkle, where Rip sleeps twenty years and awakes to a much changed world, and the story of Gulliver's travels, where an Englishman is shipwrecked in a land where people are six inches high, and a traditional Jewish folk tale, "Fool's gold."

The 1st story is about the adventures of Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest with Friar Tuck, Little John, Maid Marian, helping the poor and downtrodden. The 2nd is based on Dumas' French adventure story of the young D'Artagnan and his fellow swordsmen at the court of King Louis XIII.

Retells the daring adventures of the explorer who was the first Englishman to sail around the world; helped to defeat the Spanish Armada; and who, encouraged by Queen Elizabeth I, was a feared pirate in his time.

Four selections from the famous collection of Arabian folktales.

"You'll charge into land & sea battles to defend the world's first democracy against a vast, tyrannical empire; attend the original Olympics; hear history's most famous storyteller, Homer, spin his classic adventure, "The Trojan Horse;" laugh and learn with Socrates, the wisest (and funniest) man in Greece; and meet artists and authors, as well as typical families, in the rival cities of Athens and Sparta."--Amazon.com.

Gregory Groundhog and his shadow desperately look for each other after they become separated from one another just before their annual appearance on Groundhog Day.

A collection of stories about the adventures of a wise rabbit and his animal and human friends.