This Once-Upon-A-Time Story Book, by Rose Dobbs, is a pleasant collection of moralistic tales and adventures. You may have read something similar by another author or two, but these themes benefit from repeating. Here are titles of the 1-3 page tales: - Why cats always wash themselves after eating - Please all - please none - The foolish dragon - The happy cure - Why the mouse has a seam in its face - The pine tree - The stubborn sillies - The bird and the hunter - The wise king and the little bee - The teeny tiny omelet The book really benefits from the fabulous illustrations of C. Walter Hodges. My copy is the original 1958 version, but I doubt it really varies from this "later" version. (amazon customer)