Paul Galdone

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.

Three little kittens lose, find, soil, and wash their mittens.

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.

Jack climbs the great beanstalk that grows from the bean he bought and confronts a giant at the top.

Greedy Monkey makes every effort to cheat Turtle out of the bananas that rightfully belong to her.

The porridge pot always produces food for the little girl, but it runs amuck when her mother tries to use it without knowing the magic words to stop it.

"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." --

"When a teeny-tiny woman finds a teeny-tiny bone in the teeny-tiny village churchyard, she takes it home to boil for her teeny-tiny supper. She never expects the bone will object. This slightly silly, slightyly spooky classic ghost story is retold and illustrated with singular wit by Paul Galdone. Sure to become a spine-tingling story-time favorite." --

Three brothers who leave home because of a greedy goat, return to share with their father the magic rewards of their hard work.