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1) The Twits
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.
Author
Series
The goblin twins volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two 601-year-old goblin tricksters from Korea go on an unexpected Halloween adventure in New York City.
3) Pinduli
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Pinduli, a young striped hyena, is hurt by the unkind words of Dog, Lion, and Zebra, but her clever trick in return promotes her clan's survival and spreads harmony throughout the savannah. Includes backmatter notes about hyenas and other animals of the African savannah.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Thom Ngoh thought the Monkey King was her friend--he taught her to control her super strength and to stand up for herself. But really he was just using her. He tricked her into stealing from the Heavens and releasing him from his 500-year prison. Now the Monkey King is waging a war against the Heavens and Thom must do everything in her power to fix the mess she made. Determined to prevent a war, Thom and her dragon friend Kha set off on an adventure...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Thom Ngho is keeping a secret: she's strong. Like suuuuper strong. Freakishly strong. And it's making it impossible for her to fit in at her new middle school. In a desperate bid to get rid of her super strength, Thom makes a deal with the Monkey King, a powerful deity and legendary trickster she accidentally released from his 500-year prison sentence. Thom agrees to help the Monkey King get back his magical staff if he'll take away...
6) Silly Goose
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When Fox tricks Goose into believing she has lost her ears and needs a new pair, Rabbit catches on and summons the other animals of Frog Jump Pond to help rescue her.
8) Friendly day
Author
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition for North America.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Children will laugh out loud at this amusing story of a clever mouse who tricks a hungry cat into sparing his life by telling the cat that it's Friendly Day, the one day in the year when all animals must share, care, and be nice to one another. Bright illustrations and sparkling rhyme follow suit as the cat imagines all the world's animals getting along--from a rhino who knits kitten mittens to a shark having a friendly game of chess with a school...
9) Rosa Raposa
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A wily fox outwits Jaguar in three trickster tales set in the jungles of South America.
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Every now and then, the Devil likes to pop up into the world for an adventure. He's a trickster and a mischief-maker, and just as full of vanity and other human failings. But he's also a gifted storyteller."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fox really, really wants to win the jumping contest. He knows just where he'll put that first-place trophy. The only problem? Fox is not a very good jumper. But he is a very good schemer. . . .The irrepressible fox (sort of) wins and (sort of) gets his comeuppance in this hilarious modern-day trickster tale" Cover-flap.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
25 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Deer wakes up to find one of his antlers is missing and there's a tennis racket in its place? One by one his friends also uncover that their important items from glasses to lucky boots have been swapped with silly, useless replacements like donuts and swim flippers. They've been hornswoggled! (Hornswoggled means tricked.) It's pure poppycock! (Poppycock means nonsense.) Once they gather together to find out what happened, will they find the true thief...
14) Rabbit chase
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anishinaabe culture and storytelling meet Alice in Wonderland in this coming-of-age graphic novel that explores Indigenous and gender issues through a fresh yet familiar looking glass. Aimée, a non-binary Anishinaabe middle-schooler, is on a class trip to offer gifts to Paayehnsag, the water spirits known to protect the land. While stories are told about the water spirits and the threat of the land being taken over for development, Aimée zones...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Clever Aunt Nancy manages to foil all those who try to get the better of her. Come on in and stay a spell! Aunt Nancy outwits four unwelcome guests in these trickster tales from a masterful storyteller. It would take a real pesky visitor to make himself unwelcome to Aunt Nancy. But just her luck -- not one but four bothersome folks come knocking at her door! From Cousin Lazybones to Old Man Trouble, from doleful Old Woeful to sly, slick Mister Death,...
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