Paul Galdone

The Gingerbread Boy eludes the hungry grasp of everyone he meets until he happens upon a fox more clever than he.

A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

A retelling of one of the Indian fables relating to the former births of Buddha in which as a monkey he manages to outwit the crocodile who decides to capture him.

Colorful illustrations accompany this version of the classic children's tale of three goat brothers and a contemptible troll.

A young man believes his sweetheart and her family are the three silliest people in the world until he meets three others who are even sillier.

Three little kittens lose, find, soil, and wash their mittens.

Retells the fatal episodes in the lives of two foolish pigs and how the third pig managed to avoid the same pigfalls. All three pigs set out to seek their fortune, but two of them come to a sorry end.

A poor young man gains a fortune and meets a beautiful princess when his cat outwits an evil giant.

Greedy Monkey makes every effort to cheat Turtle out of the bananas that rightfully belong to her.

The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it.