"In a romantic folktale drawn from various African-American traditions, a beautiful brown-skinned, black-eyed mermaid saves a poor, unhappy girl. Sukey's step-pa's a bossy do-nothing man who drinks and works her too hard. When she cries for help, a mermaid hears her and takes her below the sea to a gentle place without time or pain. But Sukey longs to return to the world".--Booklist. Full color.

A Japanese folk tale about the brave daughter of a samurai warrior and her journey to be reunited with her exiled father.

In this retelling of an Irish folktale, a brave young woman battles a sea serpent and rescues her true love from a giant.