A poor farmer's youngest daughter agrees to marry a fierce dragon in order to save her father's life.

"There was once an extraordinary girl who was as beautiful as she was brave. She knew how to read and write and sew. She loved to ride horses and shoot her bow and arrows. But it was the love for her family and her father that made her into a great soldier."--Page 4 of cover.

A retelling of the tale about a Chinese man who owned a marvelous horse and who believed that things were not always as bad, or as good, as they might seem.

With the aid of a sorceress, young Li Ju seeks his mother's precious handmade tapestry held by the fairies of Sun Mountain.

In this version of a tale with many Asian variations, a wise king, who rules a town full of foolish people in the mountains of Tibet, puts a donkey and a rock on trial to settle the dispute between two honest men.

The retelling of a Chinese poem in which a young girl masquerades as a boy and fights the Huns.

An old Chinese couple has a son who never grows any larger than a plum seed, but his size does not prevent him from saving his village from a cruel lord.

When she refuses to share her food with a beggar, an old woman finds herself transformed into various animals, until she learns a lesson about greed.