The Six Servants: A poor boy is helped on his quest by six servants with very unusual powers. The Fisherman and His Wife: A young fisherman is granted wishes by a magical flounder, but his wife's extraordinary ambitions prove to be their downfall

Here are 23 of the best-loved children's stories from around the world. Stories included are:“Wondering Jack” by James Baldwin“The Story of the Three Goblins” by Mabel G. Taggert“Beauty and the Beast” by Madame de Villeneuve“The Frog Prince” by The Brothers Grimm“Cinderella” by The Brothers Grimm“The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams“The Magic Fishbone” by Charles Dickens“Thumbelina” by Hans Christian Anderson“The Elephant’s Child” by Rudyard Kipling“Lazy Jack” a Folktale“The Dragon of the North” by Andrew Lang“The Selfish Giant” by Oscar Wilde“King Grisly Beard” by The Brothers Grimm“The Girl Who Owned a Bear” by Frank Stockton“The Apple of Contentment” by Howard Pyle“Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” by Andrew Lang“The Magic Mirror” by Edith Howse“Jack and the Beanstalk” an English Fairytale“The Happy Family” by Hans Christian Anderson“The Friendly Frog” by Charles Perrault“A Kidnapped Santa Claus” by L. Frank Baum“The Three Bears” by W. W. Denslow“The Wonderful Toymaker” by Evelyn Sharp

Kipling creates a harmonious picture of India that unites the secular and the spiritual, the life of action and that of contemplation. It is the story of the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, Kimball O'Hara, who spends his childhood as a vagabond, traveling through India with an old Tibetan lama, enthralled by the 'roaring whirl' of the country's colorful landscape and by the diversity of its people.

My Father's Dragon is a children's book about a young boy, Elmer Elevator, who runs away to Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon. It is both a Newbery Honor Book and an ALA Notable Book. It was also nominated for the Ambassador Book Award. The National Education Association named it one of its 'Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children.' In addition, it was one of the 'Top 100 Chapter Books' of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal.

'The Beginning of the Armadillos' and 'The Cat That Walked by Himself' are selections from Kipling's Just So Stories for Little Children. The 'just so' stories are highly fantasized origin stories that are among Kipling's best known and, arguably, best works.