When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.

An adaptation of the Peruvian folktale in which Fox and Mole try to climb to the moon on a rope woven of grass.

Retells the familiar tale in which one of three brother pigs survives a wolf's attacks by using his head and planning well.

Three bears return from a walk and find a little girl asleep in baby bear's bed.

A cumulative tale in which Aunt Pitty Patty's niece Nellie tries to get piggy to go through the gate.

Retells the fatal episode in the lives of two foolish pigs and how the third pig manages to avoid the same pigfalls.

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.

A cumulative tale about Henny Penny and her barnyard friends who were literally outfoxed on their journey to tell the king the sky was falling.

Epossumondas's mother tells him a story about how his great-great-grandfather became the first possum to have a hairless tail. Epossumondas has a very important question: "Mama, why don't I have hair on my tail?" And wouldn't you know it, Mama can tell him exactly why possum tails are all pink and naked and funny looking. Her story's a doozy! It goes way back to Epossumondas's great-great-grandpa, Papapossum. When hungry Papapossum and his growly...

In their travels, three sisters find a magic spyglass, a magic horse, and a magic apple, which they use to help save a sick prince.