Why on earth do you need such an enormous blanket?” one of Ursula’s friends asked.
“Oh, it’s not for me,” said Ursula. “It’s for the baby.”
“The baby?” said the other villagers. “What kind of baby needs a blanket that size?”
At that very moment there was a sound like thunder, and the ground began to shake.
One winter’s morning, Nana Barlowe found a little field mouse sitting by the hearth.
“Meow, meow, meow!” said Mrs. Pipkin, Nana Barlowe’s cat. “Mice don’t belong in the house!”
“Oh, Mrs. Pipkin,” said Nana Barlowe. “Let’s not be rude. Surely, we can make room for one little field mouse.”
Poor Mrs. Huddle. None of her new neighbours welcomed her to Tangletree Forest; none of them would even talk to her! But Mrs. Huddle was a determined troll. She rolled up her sleeves and got to work turning the badgers’ abandoned den into an inn.
Nothing can wake Grandad McAlister from his long winter nap – not a rooster, not a bouncing grandchild, not even a mariachi band!
Of all the girls in the kingdom of Once-Upon-a-Time, Rivka is the bravest! But what will happen when she meets the King of the Trolls?
One morning as an old woman was going to fetch her water, she noticed a little tree growing by the side of the path. That poor little tree! It was more like a twig standing upright in the ground, with a few skinny branches and a handful of withered leaves.
At first Little Bear was excited when the apple tree’s leaves began to change colour. But as the weather got colder, she grew worried. Not only were the leaves changing from green to gold, they were falling to the ground. How would the little apple tree survive without its leaves?
It’s hard work scrubbing the sky – washing away all the dust, and grime, and soot, and smoke. But Jeremiah and his three uncles weren’t afraid of hard work! They started in the east and worked their way west, singing as they went: “Rub a dub-dub, it’s time for a scrub.”
“Trees can’t walk,” the big trees told the little maple. “It’s impossible!”
But the little maple was absolutely determined to see the world beyond the forest. And if that meant pulling its roots from the ground and becoming the very first tree to walk – well, so be it.
There were once four sisters who got along very well – until Winter decided she wasn’t going to let Spring have her turn. Poor Spring! She tried to wake the sleeping bears, but when they peeked out and felt the icy wind – when they saw how much snow still covered the ground – they just shivered, and went back to sleep.