Bill Peet

When Prewitt's shamefully scraggly tail develops the appearance of a scary green-eyed monster, the other peacocks decide it has to go.

Cyrus, a shy and friendly serpent, finally realizes his ambition by heroically helping some voyagers through a storm and foiling some dastardly pirates.

A cat and her home, an old car in a junkyard, suddenly find themselves on the road with a reckless, frenzied travelling salesman at the wheel.

Zella the zebra helps Zack the ostrich when he is young and helpless and when he grows up Zack returns the favor by saving Zella's young offspring from a lion.

The smallest creatures of Knotty Pine Forest avert the horrors of the hunting season in a very "sportsgnatlike" way.

The story of an awkward and scrawny mountain sheep with oversized horns who escapes the hunters to become the sensation of a ski resort.

Dudley the rooster's ability to make the sun rise with his crowing is questioned by a spiteful goose, whose malice almost destroys the popular rooster.

Shares the story of one spring and summer in the family of author Bill Peet when they adopted a large South American rodent and kept it at their home in Indiana until it grew too big to handle.

A proud but decrepit lion learns a lesson about friendship from the vultures he despises.