Paul Galdone

The Gingerbread Boy eludes the hungry grasp of everyone he meets until he happens upon a fox more clever than he.

When a poor shoemaker and his wife discover the two naked little elves who have helped them become successful, they sew fine outfits for them.

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.

A cumulative tale about Henny Penny and her barnyard friends who were literally outfoxed on their journey to tell the king the sky was falling.

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.

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

An old nursery poem introduces animals and their young and the numbers one through ten.

A mistreated kitchen maid, with the help of her fairy godmother, attends the palace ball on the condition that she leave before midnight.

When a woman lets out the bumblebee that he had put in his sack, a wily fox replaces it with a rooster, a pig, and finally a little boy -- and that leads to his downfall.

When the town mouse and the city mouse visit each other they discover they prefer very different ways of life.