The master illustrator of Mr. Popper's Penguins and The Story of Ferdinand brings new life to a bevy of traditional tales. More than forty of the artist's enchanting pen-and-ink drawings grace thirteen fairy tales and poems of wizards, dragons, and princes in disguise by Padraic Colum, Beatrice Curtis Brown, Eunice Tietjens, and other distinguished authors. Contents include and "Auntie Grumble Meets the Wizard and " by Carol Johnstone Sharp; and "Jonathan Bing Does Arithmetic, and " and "More About Jonathan Bing, and " and "Jonathan Bing Dances for Spring and " by Beatrice Curtis Brown; and "The Pelican and " by Mildred Plew Meigs; and "The Wogg and the Baggle and " by Laura E. Richards; and "The Man with the Bag and " by Padraic Colum. Other features include Eunice Tietjens' and "St. Valentine, and " and "Story Tell and " by Laura E. Richards, and "The Little Dragon and " by Constance Savery, Nancy Byrd Turner's and "Planting a Tree, and " and "Penguins and " by Anne Brewer, and "The Piping on Christmas Eve and " by Florence Page Jaques.