Paul Galdone

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

Retells the tale of the teeny-tiny woman who finds a teeny-tiny bone in a churchyard and puts it away in her cupboard before she goes to sleep.

Jack climbs the great beanstalk that grows from the bean he bought and confronts a giant at the top.

Retells the fatal episodes in the lives of two foolish pigs and how the third pig managed to avoid the same pigfalls.

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.

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

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,...

"One October evening, a gravedigger's wife was sitting by the fireside with her big, black cat. . ." 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.