fables

Tom learns a lesson after he decides to cure his boredom by lying about a wolf.

When the town mouse and the country mouse visit each other, they find they prefer very different ways of life.

While he stocks up for the winter, Ant is annoyed by Grasshopper's singing and dancing all summer long, but soon realizes there is value in having fun.

A simplified version of the familiar fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf featuring a kitten who becomes bored with guarding a stack of toys and decides to cry "dog" and watch the villagers come running, until the day a dog is really there and no one answers his call.

As his plans are spoiled over and over again, the wolf keeps trying to find his dinner, in this retelling of five well-known stories and fables.

Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, sets out from his home in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of buried treasure, but through his encounters with a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an Alchemist, he learns the value of the treasures found within himself.

Joey, the new kid in Howard's class, has a hard time sitting still and paying attention, and when Joey tells Howard he just wants to fit in with the other students, Howard uses Joey's chameleons to help Joey learn how to be a part of the group and fit in better with the other kids.

Illustrations and minimal text relate the familiar fable of the race between a slow tortoise and a quick but foolish hare.

A missing piece, looking for someone to carry it along, finally develops its own momentum.