In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle.

A selection of Aesop's fables with illustrations from older editions, featuring such artists as Randolph Caldecott, Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, and Alexander Calder.

A newly illustrated edition of the classic fable of the hen who is forced to do all the work of baking bread and of the animals who learn a bitter lesson from it.

Three feisty little kittens can't seem to keep track of their mittens. Will their mother, their oh-so-patient mother, still let them have some pie?

Presents the classic English nursery rhyme alongside illustrations that feature a curious chipmunk marveling at the natural world during the day and setting sail in his imagination at night.

A clever cat wins for his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.

Despite being neglected by the king for a jewel-studded artificial bird, the little nightingale revives the dying ruler with her beautiful song.

"In this reinvention of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, a little mermaid trades her voice for legs and makes a new friend on land, but must return to the sea to save her family"--

Story in pictures of the Great Migration of African-Americans from the rural south to the urban north of the United States, illustrating the swing spiritual based on the proverb "God blessed the child that's got his own."

Kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded