Gregg B Jackson: 5 books

A boy is naughty and scolded by his parents. He runs away into a forest where he is content except for being awakened every night by a bad dream. Despite his several childish efforts to evade the dream, it does not go away. He comes upon a beautiful maiden and asks for her help, but she misleads him...

Tidal waves are crashing higher and higher up the hill. A growing group of animals bands together in a desperate run from the waves. They bicker, quarrel, and insult each other, but each time they reach an impasse that could doom them, one animal uses his or her natural talents to help the others...

Tommy is too little for many of the things he wants to do. Then one day an infant falls into an abandoned well at the neighborhood park, and none of the adults can reach her. Tommy volunteers to be lowered into the well but the chief firefighter says he cannot let little children risk their lives....

The boy loves to talk, but then he might lose his voice forever. What can he do?The boy goes through the common responses to overwhelming loss: Denial, anger, questioning, bargaining, pleading, and despair. Then he moves on to coping and eventually to thriving in a way that otherwise might...

The official story of “The Three Little Pigs” indicates that incompetent and penniless piglets happened upon hard-working farmers on their way to market; asked them for their loads of straw, lumber, and brick; and—without offering compensation or applying coercion—were graciously given these...