Books like The Palm-Wine Drinkard
When his palm-wine tapster falls from a tree and dies, a man who has drunk palm-wine all his life sets out for the Town of the Dead to bring him back.
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Minli, who lives with her poor, hardworking parents in a village beside Fruitless Mountain, sets off on a goldfish's advice to ask the Old Man of the Moon how to change their fortune.
Journey to the West
The monk Tripitaka travels from Tang China to India to fetch the Buddhist scriptures, guarded by Monkey, a rebellious immortal who once made war on heaven, along with Pigsy and Sandy.
Bridge of Birds
When the children of his village fall into a deathly sleep, Number Ten Ox, a strong and simple peasant, hires Master Li Kao, a sage with a slight flaw in his character, to find the Great Root of Power that might cure them.
Over Sea, Under Stone
Children in Cornwall and Wales are drawn into the age-old struggle between the Light and the Dark, rooted in Arthurian legend.
The Last Unicorn
A unicorn who has lived alone in her lilac wood since the world was young hears that she may be the last of her kind, and leaves to find out what happened to the others.
Strange the Dreamer
Lazlo Strange, an orphan and junior librarian who has spent his life dreaming of the lost city of Weep, gets his chance when a hero from that city arrives seeking help with a problem no one will name.
Akata Witch
Sunny Nwazue, twelve, born in New York to Nigerian parents and now living in Nigeria, an albino who can't play football in the sun, finds out she is one of the Leopard People, who work juju.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Nils Holgersson, a lazy, cruel farm boy, is shrunk to the size of a thumb by an elf and carried across Sweden on the back of a goose flying north with a flock of wild geese.
Nettle & Bone
Marra, the quiet, overlooked third princess, decides to kill the prince who has married her sisters, and sets out with a dust-wife, a disgraced knight and a dog made of bones.
The Blue Bird
A fairy play: on Christmas Eve a fairy sends the woodcutter's children, Tyltyl and Mytyl, in search of the Blue Bird of happiness, through the Land of Memory, the Palace of Night and the Kingdom of the Future.
Lud-in-the-Mist
In Lud-in-the-Mist, a prosperous town that has banned all mention of the fairy country beyond its border, the mayor's son is caught eating fairy fruit, and Master Nathaniel Chanticleer has to go after him.
Journey to the East
H. H., a musician, recalls his part in a secret League's pilgrimage to the East, a journey across time and imagination that fell apart when the humble servant Leo vanished.