A boy and girl playing dress up ask the reader for imaginative and real uses of a shoe, a chair, a hat, a cup, a broom, and finally a bed.

Retells in verse the adventures of a little girl who meets a wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.

A retelling of the Slavic fairy tale in which the Month Brothers' magic helps Little Sister fulfill seemingly impossible tasks which prove the undoing of her greedy stepmother and stepsister.

The biblical tale of the young shepherd who uses a slingshot to do battle with a giant and eventually becomes a king.

A collection of 115 poems for children by a variety of well-known authors with illustrations by nine Caldecott medalists.