A typically wonderful Oxenbury family sets out with gusto on a bear hunt, and the old story comes to life. Paintings are simply marvelous ... Rosen's retelling is spare, with a driving rhythm, and some new sounds add sparkle to the traditional tale. A predictable story in which brave bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud, and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with the bear forces a headlong retreat.

While three bears are away from home, Goldilocks ventures inside their house, tastes their porridge, tries their chairs, and finally falls asleep in Baby Bear's bed.

An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.

As darkness falls various animal parents get their children ready for sleep. On board pages.

In this cumulative tale, a chirping cricket calms a worried mouse, a prowling cat, and other restless creatures, helping them to finally fall asleep.

Unsuspecting Jemima Puddle-Duck foolishly allows the cunning Fox to help her find a "safe" nest. Kep, the barnyard collie, and her pups rescue Jemima Puddle-Duck from the fox's cooking pot.

BooBoo the gosling likes to eat from morning until night and thinks everything is "good food"--Well, almost everything!

Sheep on a deep-sea voyage run into trouble when it storms and are glad to come paddling into port.

The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. The pictures may be felt as well as seen.

When Old Bear falls asleep for the winter, he has a dream that he is a cub again, enjoying each of the four seasons. On board pages.