Paul Galdone

Relates the adventures of three little pigs who leave home to seek their fortunes and tells how they deal with the big bad wolf.

In a cumulative tale, Henny Penny and her friends are on the way to tell the king that the sky is falling when they are met by a clever fox.

A retelling of one of the Indian fables relating to the former births of Buddha in which as a monkey he manages to outwit the crocodile who decides to capture him.

"I will give you three days," the little man said. "If by the end of that time you find out my name, then you shall keep your child." An impossible task, a terrible bargain, something most precious at stake. Paul Galdone's retelling of the curious story of the devious little man who can spin straw into gold and the miller's daughter who outsmarts him is as thrilling as ever!--

Once there, the tailor quickly regrets his decision to spend the night in the graveyard sewing lucky trousers for the Duke.

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 cake she makes from it.

Three clever billy goats outwit a mean, ugly troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way to a grassy pasture.

Illustrates three verses of our national anthem, written at the battle of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. Includes music, background history, and pictures of flags used in the United States, past and present.

A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.

Rendition of the classic myth by the early American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne.