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 poor young man gains a fortune and meets a beautiful princess when his cat outwits an evil giant.

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.

(Gr K-1 / Age 5-6) Sylvester Bear desperately wants to escape his wife's snoring but soon realizes it is truly music to his ears.

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.