When the town mouse and the country mouse visit each other, they find they prefer very different ways of life.

Illustrations and minimal text relate the familiar fable of the race between a slow tortoise and a quick but foolish hare.

The novel examines the midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire. The story concerns Henderson's search for meaning. A larger-than-life 55-year-old who has accumulated money, position, and a large family, he nonetheless feels unfulfilled. He makes a spiritual journey to Africa, where he draws emotional sustenance from experiences with African tribes.

A collection of Aesop's fables with an emphasis on their ability to entertain rather than moralize.

Adaptations of eighty-two of Aesop's best known fables. Includes a brief history of the fables.

A retelling of Aesop's fables including Mousekin and his woodland friends.

Retells sixteen of Aesop's fables in an African setting.

As it changes from mouse, to cat, to dog, to tiger, a hermit's pet also becomes increasingly vain.

Retells the fable about an industrious ant that busily prepares for the approaching winter while a grasshopper makes no plans for the cold weather to come.

A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call.