A World's Work children's book

After Catfish has thoroughly irritated the important citizens of Nevermind, he redeems himself by capturing bank robbers.

The folk song describing the journey from Albany to Buffalo on the Erie Canal in the 1850's. Includes musical notation.

A cunning cat wins for his master a castle, a fortune, and the hand of a princess. Charles Perrault first published his collection of classic French folk tales 300 years ago, including "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," and this entertaining story about a most clever feline. In Puss and Boots, a poor miller dies and leaves his youngest son nothing but a cat. The son is none too happy about it, either; " ...once I've eaten my cat and made a muff out of the fur, I'm sure to starve," he says. But what a legacy the bequeathed cat turns out to be! The cat in tall boots creates a new identity for the youngest son--the Marquis of Carabas, complete with fine clothes, fields of wheat, a castle stolen from an ogre, and in the end, the respect of the king and the hand of the king's daughter. The story itself is gracefully and humorously told, and the text, set in large gray type, adds an old-fashioned air to the tale. ABOUT AUTHOR: Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his Histoires ou contes du temps passé.--Wikipedia Born: Jan 12, 1628, Paris, France Died: May 16, 1703, Paris, France

"Felix Hoffmann--one of Switzerland's most important children's book illustrators of the twentieth century--brings wonder and intrigue to these classic Brothers Grimm fairy tales ... Hoffman's subtle details and keen ability to portray expression in humans and animals alike make this collection a visual treaure, and one to explore again and again."--Book jacket front flap.

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.

One bear demonstrates for another "magic" tricks which are easy to perform.

The adventures of Gus the ghost who takes a trip to Mexico.

When they have to take on the donkey's load to get to the fair, the tailor, baker, and shoemaker all learn to be tolerant of the other fellow's point of view.

A ballad recounting the cabin boy's bravery in saving his captain's ship from the Turkish enemy.

Together Lewis and his mother remember Grandpa, who used to come in the night when Lewis called.

Mole and Troll agree to trim a tree for Christmas but disagree on the ornaments as each dislikes the other's choices.

Little Toot visits the beautiful palaces of Venice, travels its secluded waterways, and learns to blow Venetian glass bubbles which help him to save the city from a ship of thieving pirates.

As the gravedigger tells his wife how a band of cats marched into the cemetery to mourn their dead king, their own cat, Old Tom, listens with a strange intensity.

Gus, the ghost, and Mr. Frizzle, the museum keeper, have a difference of opinion about the baby ghost abandoned on the museum doorstep.

When a porter refuses to pay for the use of smoke from a cook's roasting goose, the King's fool is called upon to settle the argument, and does so with astonishing wisdom.

The dinosaur Mary Ann finds has trouble adjusting to the noise of the twentieth century.