Janet Stevens

Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.

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

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

When a little red pen accidentally falls into the waste basket while trying to correct papers all by herself, the other classroom supplies must cooperate to rescue her.

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...

A retelling of a classic tale in which a well-intentioned young possum continually takes his mother's instructions much too literally.

Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.

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