Contains 23 of Beatrix Potter's Tales. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published to enable them to be read in proper sequence, as several are linked together by events and characters. A section at the end of the book contains four additional works by Beatrix Potter that were not published in her own lifetime.

Designed to provide ideas for adventures and games, both indoors and out, during each season of the year.

Once upon a time, there lived in Spain a bull named Ferdinand. While his brothers liked to charge around the field, butt their heads together and to generally act ferocious, Ferdinand liked nothing better than to sit under the cork tree and smell the flowers. He was a placid and a gentle bull whose only desire in life was to be let alone.

Princess Irene finds a staircase and enters a mysterious world. For in the highest tower, is an old lady spinning magic thread beside a fire made of roses. When Curlie the miner boy encounters goblins plotting against the royal household, Irene must trust the lady if they are to save the palace.

Intends to provide you great wisdom in the morning, several conversational bons mots for the afternoon, and many an enlightened smile after dark. This book contains the 13 principles of witchcraft, the structure of military hierarchy, clothing care symbols, a list of the countries where you drive on the left, and a nursery rhyme about sneezing.

After ten years of The Far Side , this is the distillation of Gary Larson's humour. The book contains early cartoons, some of Larson's favourites with comments, some that didn't quite make it and many other facets of the cartoon series.