Beni Montresor

A little girl on her way to visit her grandmother meets a hungry wolf in the forest.

Unable to sleep on Christmas Eve, four children creep downstairs to see the tree, their stockings, their wrapped gifts, and to hear the singing of the carolers.

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by several objects whose names begin with that letter. A separate section includes the names of the objects and suggestions for stories about them.

Small twin mice, Bob and Ozzie, are chosen to bell the house cat.

Despite being neglected by the emperor for a jewel-studded bird, the little nightingale revives the dying ruler with its beautiful song.

Stories about princesses by Hans Christian Andersen, W. Somerset Maugham, Walter de la Mare, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, A.A. Milne, E. Nesbit, George Macdonald, and James Thurber, among others.