Florence Parry Heide

Sylvia Worth Van Clief

Brief tales extolling the "virtues" of carelessness, greed, lying, selfishness, and other "admirable" qualities.

Fables You Shouldn't Pay Any Attention To

In this new edition of the classic companion to Tales for the Perfect Child, Sergio Ruzzier lends his signature humor to Florence Parry Heide and Sylvia Worth Van Clief’s delectably subversive fables. Genevieve is careless. Muriel is discontented. Phoebe is always putting off until tomorrow what she should be doing today. And Chester is the laziest turkey you ever heard of. Caleb and Conrad, on the other hand, are polite and kind and thoughtful and gracious and truthful. But some good that does them! If the morals you find in these pages aren’t exactly, well, moral…just don’t pay any attention to them!

During an especially hot summer the cold air from the air conditioners drifted up and awakened Jack Frost who thought he had overslept the winter.

The Day it Snowed in Summer

When they pick up the wrong suitcase through a mix-up on a bus, three children are convinced it belongs to a criminal planning a bank robbery.

Sylvia Worth Van Clief

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