Janet Stevens

Bear has lots of money and lots of land -- and he's lazy. Hare has nothing but a hungry family -- and he's smart. Hare is sure there's a way to share Bear's wealth, so he and Mrs. Hare cook up a plan. Then Hare hops on down the road to Bear's place and proposes that Bear donate land. Hare handles labor, and they split the crop in half. All Bear has to do is choose the half he wants -- tops or bottoms. Sleepy Bear takes tops but finds once the harvest...

With the questionable help of his friends, Big Brown Rooster manages to bake a strawberry shortcake which would have pleased his great-grandmother, Little Red Hen.

As she tries to settle down for a nap, a mouse who lives in a shoe is visited first by Tortoise and Hare, then by Little Red Hen, and lastly by the Big Bad Wolf.

Merl the cat has a perfect home until the arrival of a puppy.

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

When Dish and Spoon run away, their nursery rhyme friends Cat, Cow, and Dog set out to rescue them in time for the next evening's reading of their rhyme.

A town mouse and a country mouse exchange visits and discover each is suited to his own home.

When a young child takes his favorite toy along to the park, the market, the lake, and for a car ride, he mistakenly leaves the toy behind.

Coyote receives his comeuppance when he tries to take something that does not belong to him.

A retelling of the Aesop fable describing the consequences of the meeting between the slave Androcles and a wounded lion.