"Franklin's valentines fall into a puddle, so he decides to make a new batch of cards - for Friendship Day, which can be any day of the year" Cf. Our choice, 1999-2000.

Franklin is missing out on a lot of fun because he cannot ride his bike without training wheels, but when his mother points out that learning new things takes a lot of work, he decides to try again.

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. It's a lazy Mississippi River town, a place where a boy can learn magical cures for warts, turn a fence-painting job into a leisurely con game, get lost in a cave, escape to an island, or attend his own funeral. It's a time when hooky is punished with a simple swatting and pockets bulge with firecrackers and dead rats; a time...

Look out- here comes Mr. Toad in his brand new Motor Car! The River Bank is a magical place to live for Mole and his friend Ratty. But how can they enjoy it properly when their neighbor Mr. Toad keeps crashing his car into their peaceful picnics?

Enraged at not being invited to the princess's christening, a wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.

A retelling of the tall tale about Paul Bunyan.

An easy-to-read retelling of the classic tale of a beautiful princess who makes a promise to a frog which she does not intend to keep.

When its casket is opened, an Egyptian mummy comes to life and tries to raise a princess from the dead. Includes information about other mummy stories and about how mummies were made in ancient Egypt.

An easy-to-read retelling of the classic tale in which a strange man spins straw into gold, asks a huge reward, and offers a seemingly impossible way out of the deal.