Here is an East German book that goes back over fifty years. Unfortunately, it has spent some of that time in someone's musty cellar! The German is in six-line rhyming strophes. This version tells the story very well, ...

This is a charming 24-page version of MSA. Niko sets out with his son to sell two bags of wheat. He puts his son on the donkey because it is a hot day. Soon, because of criticism, they exchange places. Maybe we had ...

This story is new to me. Wikipedia describes Hans Christian Andersen's story this way: In a faraway kingdom, there lives a widowed King with his twelve children: eleven princes and one princess. One day, he decides to ...

This story represents a transformation of the traditional Aesopic fable. First, this version develops the beginning by inserting three phases taken from two fairy tales and a fable. This wolf sees Little Red walking along ...

This story is brand new to me. Little Lucy, who loses things, loses a handkerchief. Her search for it brings her to the diminutive home of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, a self-proclaimed excellent clothes washer. Among the wash, ...

This version of the age-old story is true to my childhood memories. There is the fine threesome of building materials: straw and rope; sticks; and bricks. There are the two repeated formulae: Not by the hair of my chinny ...

Here is a classic story whose point is that love makes real. A key line is the boy's response to a nanny who has had to clean up his beloved velveteen rabbit after it was left out on the lawn: He isn't a toy. He is REAL! ...

I had heard of this story frequently, and so I am happy to read it at last. It is a story that dramatizes politeness especially by its absence in Squirrel Nutkin, who torments Old Mr. Brown, the owl overseer of the ...

This version of the age-old story is true to my childhood memories. The ugly duckling in this version has to go through a number of rejection experiences. One hint to the bird's identity comes when he sees a flock of ...

Here is a great American legend that starts on a little farm in Pennsylvania. New to me is the source of Johnny's seeds. Cider mills did not need the seeds. Johnny headed west with bags of them. One wonders about the ...