Time to exercise your funny bone. This fun collection of stories from around the world will make children of all ages smile and chuckle. A LAUGHING SONG
When the greenwoods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
When the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene;
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing “Ha, ha, he!”
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread;
Come live and be merry and join with me
To sing the sweet chorus of “Ha, ha, he!”
William Blake. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
Chapters
1 The Rats and Their Son-in-Law 5 min 2 The Mouse and the Sausage 2 min 3 The Three Wishes 10 min 4 The Fox and the Goose 3 min 5 If Heaven Will It 3 min 6 The Booby 10 min 7 The Months 11 min 8 The Stone in the Cock's Head 12 min 9 The Fox and the Cat 4 min 10 The Straw Ox 9 min 11 The Cat, The Cock and The Fox 6 min 12 The Fox and the Dove 3 min 13 The Fox and the Hedgehog 3 min 14 The Disappointed Bear 3 min 15 Young Neverfull 3 min 16 Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Leary 14 min 17 The Tail 1 min 18 Jack and the King who was a Gentleman 16 min 19 Hans in Luck 16 min 20 The Family Servants 2 min 21 The Flail Which Came From the Clouds 3 min 22 The Sole's Mouth 2 min 23 The Three Brothers 5 min 24 The Wren and the Bear 8 min 25 The Musicians of Bremen 10 min 26 The Fox and the Cat 3 min 27 The Golden Key 2 min 28 Doctor Know-All 6 min 29 The Fair Catherine and Pif-Paf Poltrie 4 min 30 The Wolf and the Fox 4 min 31 Discreet Hans 8 min 32 King Thrush-Beard 13 min 33 The Three Luck-Children 7 min 34 The Three Sluggards 2 min 35 The Fisherman and His Wife 18 min 36 The Nose-Tree 18 min 37 The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet 14 min 38 The Golden Goose 9 min 39 The Young Giant 18 min 40 The Sweet Soup 2 min 41 Seven at One Blow 19 min 42 The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership 8 min 43 Old Sultan 6 min 44 The Nail 2 min 45 The Fox and the Horse 3 min 46 The Giant and the Tailor 6 min 47 The Spider and the Flea 3 min 48 The Little Shepherd Boy 2 min 49 The Seven Swabians 6 min 50 The Shreds 2 min 51 The Wolf and the Seven Kids 6 min 52 The Elves and the Shoemaker 5 min 53 King Wren 7 min 54 Why the Bear has a Stumpy Tail 2 min 55 Three Ways to Build a House 13 min 56 How to Tell a True Princess 3 min 57 The Five Servants 13 min 58 The Hare and the Fox 3 min 59 The Story of Zirac 10 min 60 Johnny-Cake 5 min 61 The Wee, Wee Mannie 5 min 62 Sir Gammer Vans 5 min 63 Tom Tit Tot 13 min 64 The Old Woman and Her Pig 4 min 65 The Story of the Three Little Pigs 5 min 66 The Three Sillies 7 min 67 The Cat and the Mouse 2 min 68 Hereafterthis 8 min 69 Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse 5 min 70 The Magpie's Nest 3 min 71 Scrapefoot 5 min 72 The Wise Men of Gotham 10 min 73 Henny Penny 5 min 74 A Son of Adam 3 min 75 The Happy Family 10 min 76 The Blind Man, the Deaf Man and the Donkey 21 min 77 The Alligator and the Jackal 12 min 78 Why the Fish Laughed 16 min 79 The Selfish Sparrow and the Houseless Crows 4 min 80 The Lambikin 5 min 81 The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse 6 min 82 The Greedy Cat 16 min 83 Well Done: Ill Paid 7 min 84 Reynard and Chanticleer 3 min 85 Father Bruin in the Corner 6 min 86 Why the Sea is Salt 9 min 87 Gudbrand on the Hillside 11 min 88 The Pancake 6 min 89 The Death of Chanticleer 10 min 90 Reynard Wants to Taste Horse-Flesh 3 min 91 Bruin and Reynard Partners 2 min 92 Pork and Honey 3 min 93 How Reynard Outwitted Bruin 2 min 94 Nanny Who Wouldn't Go Home to Supper 9 min 95 The Box with Something Pretty in it 2 min 96 The Farmer and the Troll 2 min 97 One's Own Children Always Prettiest 2 min 98 The Princess Whom Nobody Could Silence 6 min 99 The Money-Box 7 min 100 The Darning-Needle 10 min 101 Master of All Masters 3 min 102 Belling the Cat 2 min 103 The Magpie and Her Children 2 min 104 The Cock, the Cuckoo and the Black-Cock 2 min 105 The Race Between Hare and Hedgehog 6 min 106 Bruno's Story 4 min 107 The Bluebottle Who Went Courting 8 min 108 How Two Beetles Took Lodgings 14 min 109 Little Tuppen 6 min 110 The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World 26 min 111 The History of the Seven Families of Lake Pipple-Popple 16 min 112 Wee Robin's Yule-Song 5 min 113 The Giant's Shoes 6 min 114 The Farmer and the Money-Lender 5 min 115 How the Sun, the Moon, and the Wind Went Out to Dinner 3 min 116 Singh Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals 6 min 117 Harisarman 10 min 118 It is Quite True 7 min 119 Manabozho and his Toe 3 min 120 The Most Frugal of Men 3 min 121 The Moon-Cake 2 min 122 The Ladle that Fell from the Moon 6 min 123 The Young Head of the Family 11 min 124 A Dreadful Boar 6 min 125 The Old Man and the Devils 5 min 126 The Wonderful Tea-Kettle 11 min 127 The Wonderful Mallet 10 min 128 The Tongue-Cut Sparrow 4 min 129 Battle of the Monkey and the Crab 3 min 130 The Cub's Triumph 7 min 131 The Silly Jelly-Fish 7 min 132 Chin-Chin Kobamama 7 min 133 The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumplings 8 min 134 The Three Goats 3 min 135 The Fox Turned Shepherd 3 min 136 The Seven Boys and the Monster 12 min 137 The Story of Little Black Mingo 10 min 138 The Cock and the Crested Hen 3 min 139 The Old Woman and the Fish 5 min 140 The Lad and the Fox 2 min 141 The Old Woman and the Tramp 10 min
