Baby Bear, who wants to be called Sam, tells the true story of what happened when he and his parents went for a walk while their porridge cooled.

Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs.

A greedy cat grows enormous as he eats everything in sight, including his friends and neighbors who call him fat.

A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call.

In this retelling of the traditional tale a little pig saves her brothers and herself from a wolf's attacks by using her head and planning well.

Retells the familiar tale in which one of three brother pigs survives a wolf's attacks by using his head and planning well.

A retelling of a folktale about how a pair of magical slippers always find their way back to the tiger whose mother made them for him.

A Western-style retelling of the traditional tale about a little girl who finds the house of bear family and makes herself at home.

In this retelling of an old English folktale featuring birds native to the U. S., Magpie patiently explains to the other birds how to build a nest, but some are impatient and fly off without listening to all the directions and that is why, to this day, birds' nests come in all different shapes and sizes.

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.