The Elves and the Shoemaker

A hungry traveller arrives in a village where nobody wants to share. All he has is a pot and a smooth grey stone, and a very good idea.

A mighty lion lets a tiny mouse go free and laughs at her promise to repay him. One day, caught in a hunter's net, he stops laughing.

The little red hen finds a few grains of wheat. Who will help her plant them? Not I, says the cat. Not I, says the dog. But everyone wants the bread.

Pip the hedgehog is afraid of the dark. One night a small moth with a glowing tail asks Pip for help, and the garden looks very different.

Nimbo is the smallest cloud in the sky, and no matter how hard Nimbo tries, not one drop falls. Then the sunflowers start to droop.

On the first rainy day of school, Mira folds a paper boat with her name on it. Where will the stream carry it, and who will find it?