Janisch, Heinz

Presents an illustrated look at the life of nineteenth-century Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen.

A bear with a problem goes looking for help and finds the people he approaches too busy to listen to him, and too anxious to load him down with things he does not need.

"A collection of very short stories about a little king and his various interactions with the world"--OCLC.

Retells Baron Munchausen's boastful account of some of his incredible adventures around the world, including riding a cannonball during a spy mission and entering a whale's mouth to hear a musical concert.

When a faithful, longtime slave asks his master to free him, the master tells him that he will do so once the slave has spent a freezing cold night all alone on a high mountain without clothing or shelter. The slave turns to his friend, a wise old man, for help.

Unfolds the life of the merry prankster Till, from his rowdy infancy to his final joke at his own funeral.

A cat, a dog, and a mouse and its friends, join together to get themselves a tasty dinner.

Retells the story of the great flood with which God destroyed all the world, except Noah, his family, and the animals he carried on the Ark.

The tiny snowdrop flower is the only part of nature who does not refuse to share her colors with Lord Winter, and together they cover a village in white.