A gentle bull who likes to sit quietly and smell flowers is entered in a bullfight.

Dandelion overdresses for a come-as-you-are party and is turned away because the hostess does not recognize him.

Little Sal and Little Bear both lose their mothers while eating blueberries and almost end up with each other's mother.

Ferdinand likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls.

Rhymed text and illustrations invite the reader to play "I Spy" with a variety of Mother Goose and other folklore characters.

Rabbit has a problem--someone is inside her house and won't let her in.

As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

In this retelling of Androcles and the Lion, Andy meets a lion on the way to school and wins his friendship for life by removing a thorn from his paw.

A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of cookies, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner.