Janet Stevens

A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves that she is a real princess.

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.

Recounts the race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.

Tired of hearing Dog yipping at chairs and trying to round up rugs, Bird tells him to go to the country to find a cow, but this is one cattle dog who does not know a cow when he sees one.

When a tennis ball lands in a prairie dog town, the residents find that their newfound frenzy for fuzz creates a fiasco.

Merl the cat has a perfect home until the arrival of a puppy. Merl the cat's pampered life is turned upside down when a golden retriever puppy moves into the house. With hilarious illustrations by Caldecott Honor winner Janet Stevens, My Big Dog is perfect for story time! Merl the cat's pampered life is turned upside down when a golden retriever puppy moves into the house. With hilarious illustrations by Caldecott Honor winner Janet Stevens, My Big...

Trickster Anansi the spider finds a magical rock that causes any person who comments upon it to faint. One by one, he lures his friends over to the rock and, once they have all passed out, steals their food. But when Anansi tries to trick Little Bush Deer, he may have met his match. Watercolor illustrations accompany this retelling of an African folktale, which can also be traced to the Caribbean.

"Sent by his parents to Bad School to learn to be a big, bad wolf, Little Good Wolf, unable to be selfish or rude, discovers a way to be a wolf while being GOOD!"--

Epossumondas's mother tells him a story about how his great-great-grandfather became the first possum to have a hairless tail.