Best Selling Books by Paul Galdone

Recounts in verse the adventures of Jack, who climbs up a tall beanstalk and rescues a girl from a fierce giant.

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.

Jack''s simple-minded efforts to follow his mother''s instructions have disastrous results until he makes a rich girl laugh.

As payment for retrieving the princess'' ball, the frog exacts a promise which the princess is reluctant to fulfill.

Un conte traditionnel que le célèbre Paul Galdone revisite avec toute sa verve et son humour. Un chat botté attachant et malicieux.

Describes in verse the physical characteristics and habits of ten types of monkeys and apes.

Un crocodile affamé aimerait bien engloutir un singe pour le déjeuner. Mais l''appétissant animal est aussi rapide qu''agile et il vit dans les arbres. Le reptile doit donc mettre au point un stratagème...

An old horse has served a farmer loyally for many years, but when he can work no longer, the farmer sends him away, saying that he will not keep and feed a useless horse unless the horse proves his strength by bringing home a lion.

A retelling of the consequences following the meeting of Androcles, the slave, with a wounded lion in the forest.

An old horse has served a farmer loyally for many years, but when he can work no longer, the farmer sends him away, saying that he will not keep and feed a useless horse unless the horse proves his strength by bringing home a lion.

Instructional activities and ideas are designed to extend children''s experiences with children''s literature. Grade level 1-3.