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In this playful reimagining of the traditional fable “The Little Red Hen", a hen discovers just how fragile the bonds of her community can be, and how rapidly her support network can disappear when people become too selfish. Though it doesn’t exactly contradict the moral of the original tale—that lazy people should not expect handouts—this story’s moral is a bit more nuanced: the handouts we ourselves receive are sometimes invisible to us … until they disappear.

Molly wants her grandpa to tell her a bedtime story. Grandpa tells her one of his favorites: Hansel and Gretel, a classic story from the Brother’s Grimm about siblings lost in the forest who encounter a witch and a house made of candy. But Molly has questions about some of the cliches and tropes in his story, and she challenges her Grandfather on things he’d taken for granted.

Haruo is taking out the trash when he discovers that an Oni—a creature of Japanese legends—has made a mess in his driveway. Haruo and his dad decide to take the creature back to its home in the mountains, and they meet some other magical creatures along the way.

En la última noche de verano, Jaiden se da cuenta de que sus vacaciones de Verano fueron simples pero muy divertidas.

En esta versión reimaginada de la fábula popular de Esopo, una hormiga apoya la música de un saltamontes. Pero, ¿podrá convencer a su colonia trabajadora que la música es tan importante como recolectar comida?

En este fábula japonesa, un mono codicioso engaña a un cangrejo a intercambiar su golosina deliciosa por una semilla de persimiono. Pero, ¿quién tendrá la recompensa más grande al final?

The night before the start of a new school year, Jaiden feels worried. What will he say when his teacher and classmates ask about his summer break? Jaiden’s family didn’t go on expensive trips or attend summer camps. But maybe the things he did at home are equally worth sharing.

Captain Cross is short-tempered, pessimistic, sarcastic, and mean. And being stuck on a deserted island with a ship that needs repairs has not improved his mood. But at the end of the day, he’s a good captain and he cares about his crew, even if it does take him a while to remember that sometimes.

In this reimagining of Aesop’s well known fable, a lone ant finds beauty in the grasshopper’s music, and inspires her entire colony to take up percussion. Yet, in spite of the richness that music brings to their lives, she has trouble convincing her fellow ants that the grasshopper’s dedication to his art still counts as a work, or that he deserves their help when winter comes.

El Capitán Colerico es enojón, pesimista, sarcástico y malo. Y estar atrapado en una isla desierta, con un barco que necesita ser arreglado, no ha mejorado su mal genio. Pero al fin del día, es un buen capitán y le importan sus hombres, aunque a veces se tarda un poquito en recordarlo.

A greedy monkey tricks a crab into trading her yummy omusubi rice snack for a single persimmon seed. But who will end up with the bigger reward in the end? This children’s story by Ryan Aoto is based on the traditional Japanese folktale “The Monkey-Crab Battle.”