Janet Stevens

Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.

"Sent by his parents to Bad School to learn to be a big, bad wolf, Little Good Wolf, unable to be selfish or rude, discovers a way to be a wolf while being GOOD!" -- Provided by publisher.

Coyote receives his comeuppance when he tries to take something that does not belong to him.

Merl, the cat, is quite proud of himself and of his house and all its furnishings. After all, he owns everything in it. Life is good for Merl until the day a puppy comes to live in his house, disrupting everything and making life very uncomfortable for Merl. Merl decides he has no alternative, except to leave home. Once he does, he finds out that other houses are not as congenial as his old home was. Poor Merl! He becomes homeless and distraught...

Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.

Three clever billy goats outwit a big, ugly troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way up the mountain.

Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs.

When Dish and Spoon run away, their nursery rhyme friends Cat, Cow, and Dog set out to rescue them in time for the next evening's reading of their rhyme.

A jackrabbit who wishes to be feared asks his fairy godrabbit for horns and becomes the first jackalope, but there's one condition: he must not tell lies.

As she tries to settle down for a nap, a mouse who lives in a shoe is visited first by Tortoise and Hare, then by Little Red Hen, and lastly by the Big Bad Wolf.