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

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.

Paul Galdone created hundreds of books in his lifetime. Many of his picture books quickly became accepted as the definitive version of traditional stories. Collected here are four of his most popular picture books: The Three Pigs, The Three Bears, The Little Red Hen, and Cat Goes Fiddle-i-fee. Parents who grew up with these whimsical retellings will enjoy revisiting them and sharing them with the family, bringing Galdone's timeless artistry and bright,...

Three clever billy goats outwit a big ugly troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way up the mountain. Retells the traditional tale about three billy goats who trick a troll that lives under the bridge.

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

In two of the three fables retold and illustrated by Galdone: The fox and the grapes and The fox and stork, the fox is outsmarted. In The foxk and the crow, however, the fox's cunning triumphs.

Overview: This familiar nursery tale features a warmly appealing bear family and a naughty, gap-toothed Goldilocks. Three bears return from a walk and find a little girl asleep in the little wee bear's bed.

A retelling of the folk tale about a little girl who finds a wolf in her grandmother's clothing.

As the gravedigger tells his wife how a band of cats marched into the cemetery to mourn their dead king, their own cat, Old Tom, listens with a strange intensity.

When the poor shoemaker and his wife discover the two naked little elves who have helped them become successful, they sew fine outfits for them.