Where did the moon come from? And what happened when giants roamed the land? Find out in this enthralling collection of myths from around the world, including the African folktale, "Anansi and the Box of Stories", the Japanese fairytale, "The Fox Maiden" and the Irish myth, "Fionnuala".

Chapters in this book include:
- About the stories
- Demeter and Persephone (a story from ancient Greece)
- The Greedy Frog (a Dreamtime story from the First Nations peoples of Australia)
- The Race of the Animals (a story from China)
- Thunder and Lightning (a tale from the West coast of Africa)
- Fire of the Jaguar (a myth from the Kayapo people of Brazil)
- Anansi and the Box of Stories (a folktale from the Ashanti and the Akan people in Ghana)
- Finn MacCool (a legend from Ireland)
- The Sun and the Moon (a myth from ancient Korea)
- The Missing Goddess (a myth from ancient Egypt)
- The Cowherd and the Princess (a story from China)
- The Demon Who Fought a Goddess (a story from Hindu mythology)
- The Water Spirit's Gift (a tale from the First Nations Blackfoot tribe of North America)
- The Fox Maiden (a story from ancient Japan)
- The Origin of the Winds (a myth from the First Nations peoples of Alaska)
- The Children of Lir (a legend from Ireland)
- Ishtar and the Land of the Dead (a tale from ancient Babylon)
- The Wall of Asgard (a tale from Norse mythology)
- The Fish of Maui (a story from Polynesia)