Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter Swan; his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home.

"A crocodile seeks revenge on Napoleon for taking him from his home, but instead becomes the talk of Venice high society."--

A cunning cat wins for his master a castle, a fortune, and the hand of a princess.

Updated version of "The Story of Little Black Sambo," in which the characters have been given authentic Indian names in keeping with the setting, telling of Little Babaji who loses his fine new clothes to a quartet of tigers, but gets them back when the tigers get into a fight over which of them is the grandest.

A lesser known Grimm tale about young Marco, who starts out as nobody special and ends up king.

Harry, the dirty dog. When a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he gets so dirty his family doesn't recognize him as a black dog with white spots. I, crocodile. An Egyptian crocodile, with a big ego and a big appetite, is taken to Paris in 1799 by Napoleon Bonaparte. A wily fox, notorious for stealing eggs, meets his match when he encounters a bold little girl in the woods who insists upon proof that he is a fox before she will be frightened. Norman,...

Five children's stories about animals.