Paul Galdone

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

The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it.

Jack climbs the great beanstalk that grows from the bean he bought and confronts a giant at the top.

As the gravedigger tells his wife how a band of cats marched into the cemetery to mourn their dead king, their own cat, Old Tom, listens with a strange intensity.

Lear's nonsense classic about the unlikely romance between a pussycat and an owl. This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades K-1, Read-Aloud Poetry).

Describes the author's boyhood on the Canadian prairies and his adventures with Mutt, a dog of indeterminate breed who displayed superior hunting skills.

A young boy of the Netherlands hopes to find the doctor who will help his father regain his "sanity." At the same time he encourages his sister to enter a skating contest which offers a special prize to the winner.

A detective story in which Basil and his friend, Dr. Dawson, solve one of Mouse-dom's most baffling mysteries.

Having the same name and birthday as George Washington, a young boy wants everything else in his life just as Washington had it, but he can not find out what Washington ate for breakfast.

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.