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

After fast-talking Fox leaves him with a large, green egg, Bear spends minutes, hours, days, and weeks lovingly caring for it with the help of his neighbor Hare.

Poor Little Red Pen! She can't possibly correct a mountain of homework all by herself. Who will help her? "Not I!" says Stapler. "Not I!" says Eraser. "¡Yo no!" says Pushpin, AKA Señorita Chincheta. But when the Little Red Pen tumbles in exhaustion into the Pit of No Return (the trash!), her fellow school supplies must get themselves out of the desk drawer and work together to rescue her. Trouble is, their plan depends on Tank, the rotund class...

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

Illustrator Janet Stevens introduces the processes involved in making a book, from manuscript to finished book.

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

Big Brown Rooster is sick of chicken feed. So along with his friends--Turtle, Iguana, and Potbellied Pig--he sets out to make the most magnificent strawberry shortcake in the whole wide world. But there’s one problem: none of his friends knows how to cook! The team bravely forges ahead, and with Rooster’s help, they learn how to measure flour (not with a ruler) and how to beat an egg (not with a baseball bat). But can they keep Pig from gobbling...

In this variation on the folktale, Sody Salyraytus, each of Epossumondas's birthday guests disappears until it is finally up to him to rescue them all and bring home the "sody" for his birthday biscuits.

A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk. A tricky spider outwits all the other animals in this African folk tale.

"Sent by his parents to Bad School to learn to be a big, bad wolf, Little Good Wolf, unable to be selfish or rude, discovers a way to be a wolf while being GOOD!"--