Stevens, Janet

Merl, a very special cat, feels threatened when his owners bring home a new dog, so he leaves to find a place where he won't have to share his home with a dog, but he soon learns that home is the best place to be.

A cumulative nursery rhyme about the chain of events that started when Jack built a house.

A retelling of how the Manx cat lost its tail in the door of Noah's ark.

Tired of hearing Dog yipping at chairs and trying to round up rugs, Bird tells him to go to the country to find a cow, but this is one cattle dog who does not know a cow when he sees one.

Two rascals sell a vain emperor an invisible suit of clothes.

A town mouse and a country mouse exchange visits and discover each is suited to his own home.

Recounts the race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.

A little girl wanders by the home of three bears and seeing no one at home goes inside, helps herself to food, and falls asleep.

A retelling of the Aesop fable describing the consequences of the meeting between the slave Androcles and a wounded lion.

A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves that she is a real princess.