Bernadette Watts

Stories, fables and fairy tales from Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Jean de la Fontaine, Gerda Marie Scheidl, and Leo Tolstoy are illustrated by Bernadette Watts.

Although he faces several difficulties while trying to deliver the mail, with the help of his friends, Harvey Hare gets it all done in time for Christmas.

Harvey Hare worries that all of his animal friends are too busy to come to his birthday party.

When Katya learns that a baby king has been born, she sets off to visit him with a number of gifts, but has only her prized wooden bird whistle that has broken by the time she arrives.

When the town mouse and the country mouse visit each other, they find they prefer very different ways of life.

"Varenka lives contently in her cottage in the woods, until passersby warn her that war has broken out. Pack up a bundle and come along with us. But Varenka can't leave. Who will care for the children who wander and get lost in the forest? Who will shelter the animals and feed the birds when winter comes? Soon, Varenka shelters a young artist, an old farmer and his goat, and a lost child. And each night she prays for a wall to be built around her...

After Old Beaver runs away because the other animals are going to replace him with a younger beaver who can build better dams, the animals decide that he is still valuable and that they want him back.

A retelling of the tale in which a little girl makes a dangerous mistake when she speaks to a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her sick grandmother; accompanied by illustrations by Daniel Egnéus.

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.