Leo Lionni

To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

Frederick, the field mouse sat on the old stone wall while his four brothers gathered food for the approaching winter days. The other mice felt that Frederick was not doing his share of the work, but when the food ran out, Frederick saved the day with what he had gathered.

Jessica the frog befriends the animal that hatches from an egg she brought home, thinking it is a chicken.

When his friend, the tadpole, becomes a frog and leaves the pond to explore the world, the little fish decides that maybe he doesn't have to remain in the pond either.

Mouse twins befriend a tree and watch it grow and change throughout each month of the year.

After a storm blows some of them away, the letters on the alphabet tree learn from a strange bug to be stronger by forming words, then a caterpillar comes along and tells them that words are not enough; they must say something important.

A wingless bird is granted his wish for a pair of golden wings.

Little Pezzettino is so small he is convinced he must be a piece of somebody else. A wise man helps him discover the truth.

The field mice become so involved in their Mardi Gras masquerade they forget it is all in fun.