While Mary, a girl whose family lives in a big house, is learning things at school, a young mouse whose family lives in a small house within the big one is learning the same things at her school, and when the two eventually meet they become friends.

A freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of pursuers until he meets a clever fox

When Adele walks her little brother Simon home from school he loses one more thing at every stop: his drawing of a cat at the grocer's shop, his books at the park, his crayons at the art museum, and more. When Simon's older sister, Adele, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a drawing of a cat he made that morning. Adele makes Simon promise to try not to lose anything. But as they make their way home, distractions cause Simon to leave something behind at every stop. What will they tell their mother? Detailed pen-and-ink drawings - filled with soft watercolors - make a game of this unforgettable tour through the streets and scenes of early-twentieth-century Paris. Illustrated endpapers extend the fun by replicating a 1907 Baedeker map of Paris.When Adáele walks her little brother Simon home from school he loses one more thing at every stop: his drawing of a cat at the grocer's shop, his books at the park, and his crayons at the art museum.

While the dolls are away, two curious, naughty mice explore the dolls' house and steal their furniture.

A miniature Jewish family living behind the wall of a synagogue must battle a frightening cat if they want candles for their Hanukkah menorah.

Although mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella meets her prince with the help of her fairy godmother.

Shakespeare's tragic heroes, comic fools, and star-crossed lovers take center stage in a wonderful collection of prose retellings of ten familiar Shakespeare plays, each illustrated by a well-known artist or artists, including Leo and Diane Dillon, Barry Moser, Kadir Nelson, David Shannon, Mark Teague, and others.

A little girl walking in the woods finds the house of the three bears and helps herself to their belongings.

Preferring her teddy named Bruno with whom she digs in the dirt and climbs trees, Charlotte is not happy about the delicate doll she receives from her Aunt Edme until Dahlia proves she likes making mud cakes and racing wagons, and the two soon become good friends.

Molly's fairy godmother gives her a magic fishbone that will grant one wish, which the resourceful girl saves until she really needs it.

Tricky Fox uses his sack to trick everyone he meets into giving him ever more valuable items.

After making a bet with his brother that he can outsmart a human into giving him one of her pigs, Tricky Fox sets off to win the bet, but when he uses his charms on a wise schoolteacher, the tables are turned and it is Tricky Fox who is outsmarted in the end.

An illustrated adaptation of nine fables first told by the Greek slave Aesop.

Based on an eighteenth-century French fairy tale, a magical story tells the tale of a young prince who befriends an enchanted cat-queen. Read by Emma Thompson. Music by Joe Jackson.