A Golden storytime book

A kitten, intent on exploration, has some misadventures before she discovers a happy surprise.

Elizabeth looks forward to the first day of school, but when she gets there she wants to go home.

Twenty-two short poems, including "The Cow," by Robert Louis Stevenson, and "Snail," by Langston Hughes.

Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught.

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 bread she makes from it.

Zaza is embarrassed by the unusual life she and her family of actors leads, until a friend helps her regard it as wonderfully exotic rather than weird.

A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk where he uses his quick wits to outsmart an ogre and make his and his mother's fortune.