Valeri Gorbachev

After hearing a bedtime story about penguins, Turtle dresses as a penguin for school and soon the entire class is having a penguin day.

When Goat finds his friend Pig crying, he imagines all the terrible things that might have happened to cause his distress.

A girl tells her younger brother all of the rules he must follow in order to befriend a dragon.

Ms. Turtle is the best babysitter ever. When the little frogs are sad, she finds a way to make them smile. When they are full of secrets, she listens to them. Ms. Turtle even makes them a special promise.

Molly Mouse and her friends struggle to come up with ideas for birthday gifts for their friend Turtle.

Piggy, Froggy, and Goose try to convince Catty that storms can be fun.

A pig and various other animals crowd under a tree to escape the rain.

On their first visit to a playground, two little chickens are afraid to play until a beaver helps them go down the slide.

Catty Jane was born to dance. When she's old enough, she enrolls at Mrs. Herron's Dance Academy where she learns that ballet takes a lot of practice. On her way home from class, the kitten meets Froggy, who shows her his vaulting and somersaulting moves. It doesn't look anything like ballet and Catty Jane tells him so. The two pals sit in angry silence until friends come along and suggest a dance party. Catty Jane wants nothing to do with that kind...

When Christopher Rabbit learns to count in school, he enjoys it so much that he counts everything in sight, including how many baskets his friends make when they play basketball and how many peas and carrots are on his plate.