Nancy Van Laan

Moose helps his little animal friends in many ways during the four seasons.

A rhyming retelling of an Indian folktale from Brazil about tiny, playful monkeys and why they have no place to call home.

Little Fish loses his mother in an African pond and searches everywhere for her, seeing all kinds of animals in the process.

A child climbs five different trees, looking for a place to hide and finding an increasing number of animals already in residence, until finally the perfect tree is found.

When the weather changes and the ever-falling snow threatens to engulf all the animals, it is Crow who flies up to receive the gift of fire from the Great Sky Spirit.

A retelling of the Blackfoot legend about the ritual performed before the buffalo hunt.

A cumulative story in which a tiny, tiny boy tries to milk a big, big cow who will not stand still.

A mother and toddler have fun at suppertime.

A retelling of the Chibcha Indian legend about how the treasure of El Dorado came to be.