Jerry Pinkney

A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.

Retells the biblical story of the great flood and how Noah and his family faithfully responded to God's call to save life on earth.

A sweet little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her grandmother.

An African American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant laborer and gambler. Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to seventy...

Presents the classic tale of three youngsters who are careless with their mittens, but who turn out to be good little kittens after all.

"In this reinvention of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, a little mermaid trades her voice for legs and makes a new friend on land, but must return to the sea to save her family"--

A clever cat wins for his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.

In this story based on true events, a treasured wooden chair is passed down from family to family, with each new owner carving the word "welcome" in a new language.

Despite being neglected by the emperor for a jewel-studded bird, the little nightingale revives the dying ruler with its beautiful song. A retelling set in Northwest Africa.

In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.