A simplified version of the familiar fable featuring a kitten who becomes bored with guarding a stack of toys and decides to cry "dog" and watch the villagers come running, until the day a dog is really there and no one answers his call. Includes a note on the history of the tale.

Unaided by her three lazy animal companions, an industrious hen tends to all the chores on their New England farm.

Join Jack and Annie as they research leprechauns and Irish folklore and find out the facts behind the fiction.

Lost in the woods, a tired and hungry girl finds the house of the three bears in the woods and helps herself to their belongings.

Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.

A humorous retelling of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, told from the witch's point of view--who rescues the children from their wicked stepmother, and teaches them food art.

Three clever billy goats outwit a big, ugly troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way up the mountain.

Despite the boasting of grown men, only young Arthur is able to draw a sword from a stone, thereby becoming king.