Illustrations and minimal text relate the familiar fable of the race between a slow tortoise and a quick but foolish hare.

Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother.

When Lucida is unable to finish her gift for the Baby Jesus in time for the Christmas procession, a miracle enables her to offer the beautiful flower we now call the poinsettia.

When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.

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

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

In this variation on the Cinderella story set in the Smoky Mountains, Rose longs to go to the party given by the rich feller on the other side of the creek and receives assistance from an unlikely fairy godmother.

Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge, the troll is already imagining all the way to prepare a delicious goat dinner. But the troll underestimates those seemingly sweet but oh-so-savvy goats!

In this version of Cinderella set in ancient Korea, Pear Blossom, a stepchild, eventually comes to be chosen by the magistrate to be his wife.

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