Listen to the author and illustrator Yuyi Morales tell you this fun and clever story about how Grandma Beetle outsmarts Señor Calavera.

Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book by Yuyi Morales. Copyright 2003, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA. Reproduced by permission of the the author.

As he watches a man in an overcoat walk down a road, the Sun challenges the bragging Wind to a contest of strength. Read by Emily W.

The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind: An Aesop's Fable retold by Heather Forest. Illustrations by Susan Gaber. Copyright 2008. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, August House, Inc.