Books published by publisher The Dial Press

A collection of six Children's Animal Tales from American Black Folk Literature, that were originally told by slaves. Illustrated throughout with handsome full page Color Illustrations by Ralph Pinto. Stories include: "Why the Waves Have Whitecaps," "Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear," "Why Dogs Hate Cats," "The Farmer and the Snake," "What is Trouble?" and "The Knee-High Man." Julius LESTER is a multi-Award Winning Author and this is his First children's book. The Illustrator, Ralph PINTO, is also a multi-Award Winning Artist.

This is only first hand account of Robert Falcon Scott's ultimately doomed second expedition to the South Pole on the Terra Nova. "Cherry" was the assistant zoologist and at 24 one of the youngest members of the expedition. Cherry was responsible for laying depots, and accompanied the team that made the ultimately tragic attempt on the pole as far as the Beardmore glacier. This is one of the best and most fluently-written accounts of Scott's last expedition and a classic of Antarctic exploration, often described as the "finest polar book ever written" (Rosove).