Giselle Potter

In this version of the classic tale, a girl climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where she uses her quick wits to outsmart a giant and make her and her mother's fortune.

Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text follow two sisters as they demonstrate some things they envy about each other, but agree that one big sister and one little one is best.

After promising never to lie, Libby learns that it's not always necessary to blurt out the whole truth either.

Selig, who loves words and copies them on pieces of paper that he carries with him, goes on a trip to discover his purpose. Words. Selig collects them, ones that stir his heart (Mama!) and ones that make him laugh (giggle). But what to do with so many luscious words? After helping a poet find the perfect words for his poem (lozenge, lemon, and licorice), he figures it out: His purpose is to spread the word to others. And so he begins to sprinkle,...

"At bedtime, a little girl asks her big sister to tell her what to dream about and together they imagine the possibilities" -- Title page verso.

Violet, who is very shy and hates for anyone to look at her in school, finally comes out of her shell when she is cast as Lady Space in a play about the solar system and saves the production from disaster.

A retelling of the Grimm tale featuring a handsome prince who is put into a deep sleep by a curse until he is awakened by the kiss of a brave princess.

An adaptation of the Grimm brothers fairy tale "The Brave Little Tailor," this story is about seamstress who kills seven flies with one blow, outwits a giant and a king, tames a unicorn, captures a wild boar and, with the help of a kind knight, becomes a wise and kind queen.

Beatrice enjoys learning to spell, and gets really excited about it after some encouragement from her grandmother, but she has trouble convincing her classmates that spelling is not boring.