Frank Carlson Library

Bear has lots of money and lots of land -- and he's lazy. Hare has nothing but a hungry family -- and he's smart. Hare is sure there's a way to share Bear's wealth, so he and Mrs. Hare cook up a plan. Then Hare hops on down the road to Bear's place and proposes that Bear donate land. Hare handles labor, and they split the crop in half. All Bear has to do is choose the half he wants -- tops or bottoms. Sleepy Bear takes tops but finds once the harvest...

A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves that she is a real princess.

A jackrabbit who wishes to be feared asks his fairy godrabbit for horns and becomes the first jackalope, but there's one condition: he must not tell lies.

Three clever billy goats outwit a big, ugly troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way up the mountain.

A retelling of how the Manx cat lost its tail in the door of Noah's ark.