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Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.

Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle ... and a murder ... in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of pulse-pounding thrillers. Pinion, Minnesota: a huge city of all of seven hundred folks who define the phrase 'small town'. Nothing has ever happened in Pinion and nothing ever will ... until the mayor of sorts (campaign promise: `I'll Do What I Can') comes up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. He's heard of a place where a floating...

With her quick thinking Liza Lou manages to outwit all the haunts, gobblygooks, witches and devils in the Yeller Belly Swamp.

When Old Man Trouble calls on Aunt Nancy, he tries very hard to perform a trick that will bother her, but she knows just how to handle him.

In this retelling, using Gullah speech, of a familiar story the wily Brer Rabbit outwits Brer Fox who has set out to trap him.

On his birthday, Calvin and his friend Rodney see a magician perform, then copy him by hypnotizing Calvin's little sister, but the joke is on them when they are unable to snap her out of it.

This old French tale tells the story of three weary soldiers on their way home from war. While passing through a town, the hungry men ask for something to eat. When the selfish villagers hide all their food, they find a clever way to get a meal.

A retelling of the LaFontaine fable in which a stork finds a way to outwit the fox that tricked him.

As a mysterious old clock strikes thirteen, monsters and ghouls appear looking for a snack and a little mischief at the expense of the small girl who lives down the hall.

On a recent visit to an obscure African village, he was invited to a community-wide afternoon break at which elders told traditional Anansi stories and everyone else listened intently. With material gleaned on that trip and from the tradition of African tellers in North America, Norfolk electrifies audiences with his energized retellings of Anansi, the mythic underdog who is never undone or outdone.