Jonathan Allen

When Dad watches the baby while Mom is out for the evening, he tries, unsuccessfully, to be quiet so he will not wake up the baby.

Prince Eggbert makes a series of increasingly noisy tries to awaken a sleeping princess, but it is his assistant's gentle kiss that succeeds.

The animals on Noah's ark pass the time in a variety of useful and ridiculous ways.

Determined to have the three little pigs for his dinner, the wolf tries all sorts of disguises to get into their house.

The concepts of big and little are illustrated by such rhyming pairs of words as "big chair, little bear" and "little mole, big hole."

The numbers from one to ten are illustrated by simple rhymes such as "two making stew" and "eight on a gate."