Allan Ahlberg

Grandma tells Michael, Hannah, and their baby brother the story of three children who shrink to such a small size that they decide to live in a snail's shell.

A young boy named Banjo Cannon always eats a sausage for dinner, until the night that his sausage--and the rest of his meal--runs away. What happens if someone's dinner decides that, well, it doesn't want to be eaten? For a hungry little boy named Banjo and a savory sausage named Melvin, it's a plight that can only result in a breathless escape - and what a chase it is! Off speeds the sturdy sausage - leading fork, knife, and plate, chair and table,...

A clumsy Englishman tries to dress himself and ends up in Scotland, is chased by a giant sausage, and saves a dog from drowning even though he cannot swim.

After her parents treat Tilly to a treasure hunt, they all play hide-and-seek.

An adventurous little monkey who escapes from the zoo and spends the day meeting new friends in the outside world begins to miss his mom when evening comes.

A variation of an old lullaby in which adoring family and friends promise the baby an assortment of presents.

Fairy tale characters tell their stories from their own perspective, with new endings, and find themselves encountering each other as their stories overlap.

A father tells his two little boys silly stories about a pig, a cat, a horse, and a cow.

The adventures of various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters are retold in backward sequence with each tale interrelated to the other. Includes Goldilocks, Jack and the beanstalk, Jack and Jill, the frog prince, Cinderella, and the gingerbread man.

A story about a famous doctor, a criminal trial, a kidnapping, a gang of desperate men, a little girl who wanted a brother and an enormous baby.