Books like Beat the story-drum, pum-pum by Ashley Bryan

A spirited boy named Max embarks on an imaginative journey to a land of wild creatures and becomes their king.

A vivid picture book follows a hungry caterpillar as it searches for food, experiences a tummy ache, and discovers a healthy leaf. An astonishing transformation awaits—discover it in this engaging children's tale.

The Gruffalo is a British children’s picture book in which a clever mouse goes for a walk through the woods, inventing a fearsome monster to deter predators.

A rhythmic picture book that introduces children to a spectrum of animals through vibrant colors and simple, engaging rhyme.

An alphabet chant in rhyme, showing the entire alphabet trying to climb a coconut tree.

A lively picture book that follows a child and their companions on an adventurous bear hunt through grass, river, and mud, before an unexpected encounter forces a quick retreat.

A charming picture book where a young rabbit imagines running away, only to find his mother ever-present, reflecting themes of imagination and maternal love.

Yoruba Trickster Tales comes out of the tradition of evening storytelling, a popular form of entertainment in traditional African societies. A favorite genre among these folktales is the trickster tale, variations of which are found in many cultures around the world. Among the Yoruba of West Africa (mostly in western Nigeria but also in neighboring Benin), the trickster character is Ajapa, the tortoise. In this volume Oyekan Owomoyela offers a representative gathering of twenty-three Yoruba trickster tales. Ajapa is notable for his strikingly human habits, abilities, weaknesses, moods, and disposition. In the course of the stories, we discover various sides of Ajapa's character. He is mischievous, cunning, lazy, tight-fisted, greedy, and, alternately, highly intelligent and preposterously gullible. As we read through these entertaining stories, we gain a many-sided view of this fascinating character and the spirited world in which he lives.

Anxious to keep his daughter from marrying, a king announces that no man may marry his daughter unless he guesses the kind of leather used in a drum made by a wizard.

A collection of twenty-five traditional stories explaining why an animal or plant or natural object looks or acts the way it does. Following each story are storytelling tips and short modern, scientific explanations for the subject of the story.

In this traditional Igbo folktale, the greedy tortoise Mbeku is lured to a Skyland banquet and trapped, leading to the origin story of the tortoise’s checkered shell.