Stephen Gammell

While playing outside on a rainy day, a little girl peers into a puddle and sees Mudkin, who invites her to become his queen.

Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.

In this take on the well-known cumulative rhyme, a teacher inadvertently swallows a flea, then follows it with an assortment of classroom pets while her students look on in surprise.

Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer. In this affectionate story, three children follow their grandfather up to the attic, where he pulls out his old bowler hat, gold-tipped cane, and his tap shoes. Grandpa once danced on the vaudeville stage, and as he glides across the floor, the children can see what it was like to be a song and dance man. Gammell...

A child relates some of the wondrous tales told by an old man who once found a falling star and stood at the end of a rainbow.

A brother and sister continually argue during the family's Sunday drive.

Having wandered into dangerous Weedland, Twigboy is saved by Rockwell, a rolling rock, and together the two set out to get revenge.

The day gets off to a rough start, but soon the smell of pancakes fills the air and a family gathers for a breakfast feast.

After hearing the legend retold by the tribe's oldest member, Little Wolf hopes to someday witness the beginning of the buffaloes at the sacred lake.

The citizens of Dimpole rally together to save an historic oak tree from being cut down.