James Marshall

Three bears return home from a walk to find a little girl asleep in Baby Bear's bed.

Relates several episodes in the friendship of two hippopotamuses.

Retells the familiar tale in which one of three brother pigs survives a wolf's attacks by using his head and planning well.

Fox babysits for the miserable Ling children, makes a big scene when he slips on a skate and hurts himself, and gets to lead the band in the big parade.

A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of cookies, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner.

Three stories chronicle the ups and downs of a special friendship between two hippopotamuses.

Though their friendship is often tested, George and Martha survive with a sense of humor.

Five brief episodes about two friends, George and Martha, who happen to be hippopotamuses.

In eight animals stories the reader meets a rat family that vacations at a dude ranch, a pig who takes lessons in table manners, a mouse who keeps house for a tomcat, and a buzzard who leaves his money to the Society for Stray Cats--or does he?

A hungry wolf attends a performance of Swine Lake, performed by the Boarshoi Ballet, intending to eat the performers, but he is so entranced by the story unfolding on the stage that he forgets about his meal.