Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

Jean Little

The biblical tale of the young shepherd who uses a slingshot to do battle with a giant and eventually becomes a king.

Everyone tells the Boy he's good for nothing until he rescues a wise cat and helps save an island from a plague of rats.

Retells in verse the adventures of a little girl who meets a wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.

A collection of poems describing some of the joys and sorrows of friendship.

So Many Cats is a charming counting story written in rhyming verse that tells how a household with one cat comes to have 12 cats.

The friendship of Joe the Bear and Sam the Mouse blossoms when they find something they both like to do.

Laura tells her mother a bedtime story about the perilous rescue of a tiny woman.

Never satisfied with what he has, a man trades away a knife, a shoe, and even his wife, all the while wondering if he has made a good trade.