Steig, William

When Pete feels miserable because rain makes it impossible to play ball outdoors, his father finds a fun indoor game to play with his son.

Shrek signs a deal with Rumpelstiltskin to feel like a real ogre again, but turns his world upside down in the process and has just twenty-four hours to reverse the contract.

Befriended by a whale as he is drowning in the ocean, a mouse gets a chance to reciprocate years later in an equally unlikely situation.

Brave Irene, the dressmaker's daughter, ventures out into a fierce snowstorm to deliver the beautiful ball gown her mother has made for the duchess.

Expert mouse dentist Doctor De Soto is called suddenly to Africa to work on the sore tooth of a desperate elephant.

Since he is a mouse, Doctor De Soto, the dentist, refuses to treat "dangerous animals," but one day a fox shows up in his office with a toothache.

In a moment of fright, Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again.

Shrek, a grouchy but otherwise lovable ogre, and his persistent sidekick, Donkey, set out to rescue a feisty princess and win back the deed to his beloved swamp from a scheming nobleman.

When flowers began to bloom on the miserable island the ugly beasts had always had to themselves, the beasts became so enraged they killed one another.

Dozens of limericks about elephants, all based on the children's rhyme: I asked my mother for fifty cents/To see the elephant jump the fence.