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Harold Berson is the author of Loretta Mason Potts (New York Review Children's Collection), Watermelons, Walnuts, and the Wisdom of Allah: And Other Tales of the Hoca, Barrels to the moon (1982), Charles and Claudine (1980), Truffles for lunch (1980).

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Loretta Mason Potts (New York Review Children's Collection)

by: Mary Chase, Harold Berson
Loretta Mason Potts (New York Review Children's Collection)
Ten-year-old Colin Mason, the eldest of four children, learns from a neighbor that he has an ill-behaved older sister who, when he meets her, takes him down a secret tunnel to a fairytale world that seems to connect with many Mason family secrets.

Watermelons, Walnuts, and the Wisdom of Allah: And Other Tales of the Hoca

by: Barbara K. Walker, Harold Berson
Watermelons, Walnuts, and the Wisdom of Allah: And Other Tales of the Hoca
A collection of tales about the folk hero Nasreddin Hoca, as he appears in the legends of Turkey.

Barrels to the moon

by: Harold Berson
Barrels to the moon
The people of Rully, France, devise a plan to unhook the moon and fasten it to their church steeple where they can enjoy it every day.

Charles and Claudine

by: Harold Berson
Charles and Claudine
The witch Grisnel helps Charles, a handsome young man, and Claudine, an exquisite little frog, overcome their differences and live happily ever after.

Truffles for lunch

by: Harold Berson
Truffles for lunch
A wizard grants a pig's wish to be another animal, but it proves to be distressingly unsatisfactory.

Thief Who Hugged a Moonbeam

by: Harold Berson
Thief Who Hugged a Moonbeam
The rich man overhears the thief on the roof and contrives to trick him.

Joseph and the snake

by: Harold Berson
Joseph and the snake
Only a fox's cleverness saves Joseph from being eaten by the hungry and ungrateful snake whose life he saved.

Kassim's shoes

by: Harold Berson
Kassim's shoes
Kassim succumbs to pressure to abandon his old shoes but has trouble discarding them.

I'm bored, Ma!

by: Harold Berson
I'm bored, Ma!
Young Steve Rabbit finds his friends, his toys, and his life boring. Then his friend Pack Rat fires his imagination.

The rats who lived in the delicatessen

by: Harold Berson
The rats who lived in the delicatessen
A rat is happy living in the delicatessen until he begins to let other rats come and live there.

A moose is not a mouse

by: Harold Berson
A moose is not a mouse
Determined to be like the moose, which he thinks is just a very large mouse, Victor the mouse forgets his fear and attacks the cat.

The Boy, the Baker, the Miller and More

by: Harold Berson
The Boy, the Baker, the Miller and More

Larbi and Leila

by: Harold Berson
Larbi and Leila
Larbi would do anything to please his pretty wife, but Leila's passion for beautiful objects brings grief to them both.

Henry possum.

by: Harold Berson
Henry possum.
Until he meets a fox, a young opossum ignores all of his mother's warnings about the dangers of the forest.

Balarin's goat

by: Harold Berson
Balarin's goat
Feeling her husband treats his goat better than he treats her, Marinette finally revolts.

How the devil gets his due.

by: Harold Berson
How the devil gets his due.
The devil works his servant mercilessly until the servant's brother cleverly outwits him.

Why the jackal won't speak to the hedgehog

by: Harold Berson
Why the jackal won't speak to the hedgehog
A retelling of a Tunisian folk tale in which the jackal is twice outsmarted by the hedgehog.

A treasury of Mother Goose

by: Harold Berson
A treasury of Mother Goose
Seventy traditional nursery rhymes.
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