The King wears his stilts everyday after work --- until the are stolen by a wicked man. The the Nizzards invade the country until Eric, his page boy, finally recovers the stilts and the country is saved.

The smart Fox uses difficult tongue twisters to get the confused Mr. Knox in trouble with his tongue.

Includes three humorous stories in verse; Yertle the Turtle, the story about King Yertle who wanted to rule over all he could see; Gertrude McFuzz, the bird who wanted to grow a better tail; and The Big Brag, where a rabbit and bear compete over which of them could do things better.