Janet Stevens

A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves that she is a real princess.

Recounts the race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.

Coyote receives his comeuppance when he tries to take something that does not belong to him.

A jackrabbit who wishes to be feared asks his fairy godrabbit for horns and becomes the first jackalope, but there's one condition: he must not tell lies.

When Dish and Spoon run away, their nursery rhyme friends Cat, Cow, and Dog set out to rescue them in time for the next evening's reading of their rhyme.

Merl, the cat, is quite proud of himself and of his house and all its furnishings. After all, he owns everything in it. Life is good for Merl until the day a puppy comes to live in his house, disrupting everything and making life very uncomfortable for Merl. Merl decides he has no alternative, except to leave home. Once he does, he finds out that other houses are not as congenial as his old home was. Poor Merl! He becomes homeless and distraught until...

As she tries to settle down for a nap, a mouse who lives in a shoe is visited first by Tortoise and Hare, then by Little Red Hen, and lastly by the Big Bad Wolf.

Two rascals sell a vain emperor an invisible suit of clothes.

When a little red pen accidentally falls into the waste basket while trying to correct papers all by herself, the other classroom supplies must cooperate to rescue her.