New York: Blue Sky Press / Scholastic, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight animal tales, reworked from 19th-century originals recorded by Martha Young ( 1862-1941), a slave owner's daughter who became one of Alabama's foremost folklorist, on her father's plantation after the Civil War. "The stories are told in the cante fable [that is, they include verse or song and end with a moral] tradition, with plenty of rhyming and singing, and an apparently artless ease." (Publisher's Weekly) Illustrated with watercolors by Moser. Tall format, 66 pp.