In this playful, surprising tale, a savvy young witch keeps her own interests in mind as she negotiates with a scarecrow who owns some pumpkins that the witch and her cronies want to carve on Halloween.  A win-win deal depends on her finding out what the reticent pumpkin really wants in exchange.  Based on grownup, win-win research!  Stimulating …

Brad doesn’t believe in Father Christmas, and he doesn’t want anyone else to believe that nonsense either. He’s happiest when he’s making everyone else miserable. His parents aren’t bothered about Christmas either, so on Christmas Eve there’s no decorations in the house, no tree downstairs, no stocking hung up. But, whether Brad believes it or …

The classic folk tale of the little red hen, retold by Florence White Williams. Excerpt from the Little Red Hen: Little Red Hen lived in a barnyard. She spent almost all of her time walking about the barnyard in her picketty-pecketty fashion, scratching everywhere for worms. She dearly loved fat, delicious worms and felt they …