Harriet Ziefert

When Clara does not want to get dressed, her mother encourages her to make the meanest, ugliest, scariest faces in the mirror while she assists the girl in putting on her clothes.

Discusses the abilities and habits of a variety of animals, including the polar bear, bat, and honeybee.

A budding artist goes to school after painting a picture with input from his dog Louie, and returns home to find that the dog has some talent, as well.

When Lucy is first adopted from a shelter she seems like the perfect puppy, but soon nothing can make her stop howling--not even a visit to a dog psychologist--until her new owner discovers that Lucy needs a stuffed friend.

"Most of the time, Rosebud is Good Princess Rosebud, but she can become Princess Fussy. This new rendition of The Princess and the Pea features a little girl who needs certain things to be 'just so.'"--

An elderly couple who long for a child build a snow child which comes to life and makes them very happy--until the coming of spring when the days become too warm for her to stay.

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

The classic tale of the hen who has no one to help her grow, harvest, and mill the wheat, but several who want to eat the fruit of her labors.

A farmer makes a series of trades and ends up with the dog he had at the start.