Paul O Zelinsky

A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress.

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.

On Isaac's street most of the houses are decorated in red and green for Christmas including his friend, Teresa's, while Isaac's house is blue and white for Hanukkah; then someone smashes Isaac's window in the night, and Teresa comes up with a way to show support her friend--and gets the whole community to rally around their Jewish family.

Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely boys.

Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, Lumphy, a stuffed buffalo, Sting Ray, a stuffed stingray, and Plastic, a toy who happens to be in the midst of an identity crisis.

When a little girl gets a plush stingray for her birthday, it makes friends with some of her other toys as they all try to navigate in the world of real people.

A modern-day retelling of Cinderella narrated by the mouse who becomes Cinderella's stage coach.

Moose, terribly eager to play his part in the alphabet book his friend Zebra is putting together, then awfully disappointed when his letter passes, behaves rather badly until Zebra finds a spot for him.

When Zebra and his enthusiastic friend Moose are asked to exit a book about shapes, Moose has other plans.

Along with other amazing feats, Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp Angel, wrestles a huge bear, known as Thundering Tarnation, to save the winter supplies of the settlers in Tennessee.