Bernadette Watts

A tiny mouse helps a mighty lion, who had once showed him mercy, escape from a trap.

When the town mouse and the country mouse visit each other, they find they prefer very different ways of life.

Harvey Hare worries that all of his animal friends are too busy to come to his birthday party.

While Isobel is playing with her best friend's beautiful doll house, she takes the golden plate home without asking permission. But the plate doesn't look right in Isobel's doll house and she feels guilty. Her mother helps her find a solution that makes Isobel feel better.

A once proud scarecrow becomes more and more bedraggled as the children neglect him during the winter months, and he loses hopeof ever feeling happy again.

"Varenka lives contently in her cottage in the woods, until passersby warn her that war has broken out. Pack up a bundle and come along with us. But Varenka can't leave. Who will care for the children who wander and get lost in the forest? Who will shelter the animals and feed the birds when winter comes? Soon, Varenka shelters a young artist, an old farmer and his goat, and a lost child. And each night she prays for a wall to be built around her...

Retells the story of the race between the tortoise and the hare.