Paul Galdone

Jack climbs the great beanstalk that grows from the bean he bought and confronts a giant at the top.

While three bears are away from home, Goldilocks ventures inside their house, tastes their porridge, tries their chairs, and finally falls asleep in Baby Bear's bed.

A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

When a porter refuses to pay for the use of smoke from a cook's roasting goose, the King's fool is called upon to settle the argument, and does so with astonishing wisdom.

When a teeny-tiny woman finds a teeny-tiny bone in the teeny-tiny village churchyard, she takes it home to boil for her teeny-tiny supper. She never expects the bone will object. This slightly silly, slightly spooky classic ghost story is retold and illustrated with singular wit by Paul Galdone. Sure to become a spine-tingling story-time favorite.