Janet Stevens

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

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.

Merl, the cat, is quite proud of himself and of his house and all its furnishings. After all, he owns everything in it. Life is good for Merl until the day a puppy comes to live in his house, disrupting everything and making life very uncomfortable for Merl. Merl decides he has no alternative, except to leave home. Once he does, he finds out that other houses are not as congenial as his old home was. Poor Merl! He becomes homeless and distraught until...

When a tennis ball lands in a prairie dog town, the residents find that their newfound frenzy for fuzz creates a fiasco.

Dogs across the United States write to Mr. Mutt, a people expert, for help with their humans.

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.

Coyote receives his comeuppance when he tries to take something that does not belong to him.

As she tries to settle down for a nap, a mouse who lives in a shoe is visited first by Tortoise and Hare, then by Little Red Hen, and lastly by the Big Bad Wolf.