Twice the clever little monkey foils the attempts of the crocodile to capture him....

An old English cumulative rhyme introduces young children to their favorite farm animals with verses that prompt them to learn the sound that each animal makes....

Galdone's dynamic, amusing pictures add much humor to the familiar tale of the industrious hen and lazy cat, dog, and mouse....

Convinced the sky is falling, Henny Penny and a band of gullible friends march off to tell the king, only to meet their end at the hands of a wily fox....

Twice the clever little monkey foils the attempts of the crocodile to capture him. "This offers delightful viewing, and is an excellent choice for storytelling purposes." -- School Library Journal...

Convinced the sky is falling, Henny Penny and a band of gullible friends march off to tell the king, only to meet their end at the hands of a wily fox....

A droll rendition of the old English ghost story about the teeny-tiny woman who found a teeny-tiny bone in the teeny-tiny churchyard....

Paul Galdone's classic retelling of a lively nursery tale. "Galdone's dramatic, colourful illustrations are well suited to this old Scandinavian tale. Even the scale of the pictures seems to tell the story; the first Billy Goat Gruff looks small against a looming bridge; soon the troll completely fills the page, and then the big Billy Goat Gruff spreads across two. The third Billy Goat Gruff's gruesome challenge is deleted, and he butts his wild-haired, blue-nosed, yellow-toothed enemy into the water, marches triumphantly up a daisy-covered hillside, and makes himself fat."...

In this faithful retelling of the classic Grimm Brothers tale, the illustrations capture the kindness of the shoemaker and the magic of the two elves who help him....

The three goat brothers brave the terrible troll in a colorful version of the classic tale....

The three goat brothers brave the terrible troll in a colorful version of the classic tale....

All three pigs set out to seek their fortune, but two of them come to a sorry end....

Twice the clever little monkey foils the attempts of the crocodile to capture him. "This offers delightful viewing, and is an excellent choice for storytelling purposes." -- School Library Journal...

"The classic tale of the old couple, with no children of their own, who bake a gingerbread boy to keep them company. Just as the little old woman is about to take him from the oven, he slips away and runs out the door past a cow, a horse, a group of threshers, mowers, etc. All follow in hot pursuit until the gingerbread boy meets up with a wily fox, and "at last and at last he went the way of every single gingerbread boy that ever came out of an oven . . . He was all gone!" A wonderfully frenetic cross-country chase is depicted in Galdone"s broadly humorous color wash drawings. Of the eight editions of this well-known story now in print, this hilarious version is the most delectable."
—School Library Journal, starred

"Galdone has already proven many times over that he is perfectly at home with those traditional nursery tales that are still preschoolers" favorites, and his expressive, unassuming style just right for their very young audience. . . . Children will follow along breathlessly . . . right up to that last snip snap snip when the Gingerbread Boy goes "the way of every single gingerbread boy that ever came out of an oven.""—Kirkus Reviews...

By outwitting an evil giant and gaining a fortune for a poor young man, the resourceful Puss in Boots proves himself the Master Cat of them all....

All three pigs set out to seek their fortune, but two of them come to a sorry end....

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This familiar nursery tale features a warmly appealing bear family and a naughty, gap-toothed Goldilocks....

A verse version of the tale first published in England in 1807....

"The classic tale of the old couple, with no children of their own, who bake a gingerbread boy to keep them company. Just as the little old woman is about to take him from the oven, he slips away and runs out the door past a cow, a horse, a group of threshers, mowers, etc. All follow in hot pursuit until the gingerbread boy meets up with a wily fox, and "at last and at last he went the way of every single gingerbread boy that ever came out of an oven . . . He was all gone!" A wonderfully frenetic cross-country chase is depicted in Galdone"s broadly humorous color wash drawings. Of the eight editions of this well-known story now in print, this hilarious version is the most delectable."
—School Library Journal, starred

"Galdone has already proven many times over that he is perfectly at home with those traditional nursery tales that are still preschoolers" favorites, and his expressive, unassuming style just right for their very young audience. . . . Children will follow along breathlessly . . . right up to that last snip snap snip when the Gingerbread Boy goes "the way of every single gingerbread boy that ever came out of an oven.""—Kirkus Reviews...

One morning, the poor shoemaker woke up and found that someone had made him a magnificent pair of shoes. Who could have done us this service, he and his wife wondered. So they decided to find out....

You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Boy! "The classic tale of the old couple, with no children of their own, who bake a gingerbread boy to keep them company...A wonderfully frenetic cross-country chase is depicted in Galdone's humourous colour wash drawings. Of the eight editions of this well-known story now in print, this hilarious version is the most delectable."...

This familiar nursery tale features a warmly appealing bear family and a naughty, gap-toothed Goldilocks....

An old English rhyme names all the animals a farm boy feeds on his daily rounds....

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The classic Grimm tale about the odd little man who helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold beautifully retold and illustrated by one of the masters of children's books, Paul Galdone. And now, this story that has been a favorite of children for generations is reformatted into our popular book and CD package....