Paul Galdone

Three bears return from a walk and find a little girl asleep in the little wee bear's bed.

A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

A mistreated kitchen maid, with the help of her fairy godmother, attends the palace ball on the condition that she leave before midnight.

"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!--

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.

Three bears return from a walk and find a little girl asleep in baby bear's bed.

An old horse has served a farmer loyally for many years, but when he can work no longer, the farmer sends him away, saying that he will not keep and feed a useless horse unless the horse proves his strength by bringing home a lion.

In this adaptation of an American folktale, a greedy fat man eats everything in sight, including a cat, a dog, a rabbit, even a little boy and girl, until a clever squirrel gets the best of him and frees them.

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