An illustrated collection of poems, fables, and stories for the nursery, with an emphasis on traditional tales

From A child's garden of verses / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Children's hour / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Johnny Cake; Little Red Hen / by Joseph Jacobs -- Frog prince / by the Brothers Grimm; translated and retold by Wanda Gág -- Lion and the mouse / by Aesop -- Three little pigs / by Joseph Jacobs -- My shadow / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- Three billy-goats Gruff / by P.C. Asbjörnsen -- Rumpelstiltskin / by the Brothers Grimm -- Country maid and her milkpail / by Aesop -- Three bears / by Joseph Jacobs -- Belling the cat; Dog and his shadow / by Aesop -- Princess and the pea / by Hans Christian Andersen -- Owl and the pussycat / by Edward Lear -- Johnny and the three goats / from the Norwegian -- Straw ox / from the Russian -- Fox and the stork / by Aesop -- Master of all masters / by Joseph Jacobs -- Emperor's new clothes / by Hans Christian Andersen -- Miller, his son, and their donkey; Fox and the grapes / by Aesop -- Elves and the shoemaker / by the Brothers Grimm -- Chicken Licken / by P.C. Asbjörnsen -- Tortoise and the hare / by Aesop -- Cat and the mouse / by Joseph Jacobs -- Shepherd who cried "wolf" / by Aesop -- How Jack went to seek his fortune / by Joseph Jacobs -- House on the hill / by P.C. Asbjörnsen