Paul Galdone

This version of the classic nursery tale features large type and two pages of pre-reading activities.

When they are left in the woods by their parents, two children find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.

The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the bread she makes from it.

A cumulative nursery rhyme about the chain of events that started when Jack built a house.

An old nursery poem introduces animals and their young and the numbers one through ten.

A fictionalized story of the author's experiences in the early days of radio and the colorful characters she worked with.

Retells the tale of the teeny-tiny woman who finds a teeny-tiny bone in a churchyard and puts it away in her cupboard before she goes to sleep.

A poor shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night.

When the town mouse and the country mouse visit each other, they decide they prefer their own way of living.

The Jatakas are Indian fables relating the former births of the Buddha in various animal guises. In this retelling, he is a clever little monkey who twice foils the attempts of the crocodile to capture him.

An illustrated retelling of the story of Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego form the Book of Daniel.

An illustrated retelling of the courtship, marriage, and subsequent life of the very lean Mr. Sprat and his very fat wife.

An old English rhyme names all the animals a farm boy feeds on his daily rounds.

Retells the fatal episodes in the lives of two foolish pigs and how the third pig managed to avoid the same pigfalls.