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Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.

Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.

In this version of the French fairy tale, translated by Malcolm Arthur, a clever cat wins for his master, a castle and the hand of a princess.

A retelling of a Danish folktale in which a greedy cat grows enormous as he eats everything in sight, including his friends and neighbors who call him fat.

A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.

A lazy cock and an equally lazy mouse learn a lesson from an industrious hen who saves them from becoming a fox's dinner.

Two rascally weavers convince the emperor they are making him beautiful new clothes, visible only to those fit for their posts, but when he wears them during a royal procession, a child recognizes that the emperor has nothing on.

A Sufi teaching tale of a chicken that has learned to speak as people do and spreads an alarming warning, which causes the townspeople to panic without first considering the messenger.

"The Gilgamesh epic is one of the world's oldest and most important legends. Gilgamesh is a terrible tyrant. When he orders his subjects to build a great wall, the exhausted people are in despair. But the evil king meets the 'uncivilized' Enkidu, and learns lessons of friendship and true humanity that will change him forever"--Cover.