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.

Presents stories and artwork from the original Grimm's Fairy Tales, including original classics such as, "Tom Thumb," "Hansel and Grettel," "The Frog Prince," and "Rumpel-Stilts-kin."

After trading houses, the country mice and the town mice discover there's no place like home.

Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice.

Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.

Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs.

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.