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The tale of Willie Monroe

by Schroeder, Alan & Glass, Andrew

An adaptation, set in the American South, of an old Japanese folktale in which a powerful wrestler who hopes to win the Emperor's Wrestling Match encounters th...

Smoky Mountain Rose

an Appalachian Cinderella

by Schroeder, Alan & Sneed, Brad & Perrault, Charles

In this variation on the Cinderella story, based on the Charles Perrault version but set in the Smoky Mountains, Rose loses her glass slipper at a party given ...

Smoky Mountain Rose

An Appalachian Cinderella

by Schroeder, Alan & Sneed, Brad & Perrault, Charles

In this variation on the Cinderella story, based on the Charles Perrault version but set in the Smoky Mountains, Rose loses her glass slipper at a party given ...

Satchmo's Blues

by Schroeder, Alan & Cooper, Floyd

A fictional recreation of the youth of trumpeter Louis Armstrong in New Orleans.

Carolina shout!

by Schroeder, Alan & Fuchs, Bernie

A young girl describes the music she hears in the cries of various vendors on the streets of Charleston, South Carolina.

Carolina Shout!

by Schroeder, Alan & Fuchs, Bernie

A young girl describes the music she hears in the cries of various vendors on the streets of Charleston, South Carolina.

Lily and the Wooden Bowl

by Schroeder, Alan & Ito, Yoriko

A young girl who wears a wooden bowl over her face to hide her beauty overcomes a variety of trials and eventually finds love, riches, and happiness.

The Stone Lion

by Schroeder, Alan & Doney, Todd

Two Tibetan brothers are rewarded appropriately by a stone lion, one for his generosity and one for his greed.

Ragtime Tumpie

by Schroeder, Alan & Fuchs, Bernie

Tumpie, a young black girl who will later become famous as the dancer Josephine Baker, longs to find the opportunity to dance amid the poverty and vivacious st...