Finn MacCoul and His Fearless Wife: A Giant of a Tale from Ireland by Robert Byrd

A giant from Ireland builds a bride to Scotand, and finds a larger giant waiting for him at the other side. He flees home, and tries to hide, but the giant comes searching after him.  With the help of his wife, he is able to outsmart the other giant.

***warning: this book contains giants, faeries, magic, deception, lies, and trickery.  On the other hand, it is a better-known myth from the area.

Nanta's Lion By Suse MacDonald

In a Maasai village in Africa the men in the girl's village set out to hunt a lion.  The girl follows them because she wants to see the lion.  She travels around, seeing various sights of the African wilds, and finally sits down without seeing the lion.  However, the lion is there in the picture.  A fun book for children, although I'm kind of skeptical about the realism in a little girl going out looking for a lion on her own, but it's a children's book, so I'm trying to let that slide.  I think I am a bit picky, sometimes.  But, overall a fun book when they spot the lion and a nice look at the African landscape.

Hawaii is a Rainbow by Stephanie Feeney

The main part of this book has six words.  Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet.  Each word is followed by several pages of photographs of things from Hawaii that have this color.  At the end of the book, there is some information about various aspects of Hawaii to further explore. 

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Emeka's Gift: An African Counting Story by Ifeoma Onyefulu

A young African boy travels to his grandmother's house, and sees different numbers of items from 1-10 of things he would like to bring to his grandmother for a gift.  But, since he has no money, he winds up bringing her the best gift, himself. 

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