There is an old saying that “good things come in small packages.? In this story from Italy, storytellers Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss show us that good things also come in “furry? packages. When a merchant finds himself in a land that is overrun by rats, he realizes that he has the most “priceless gift? in this country, namely his ship’s cats. In this classic tale, we learn that one man’s cats are another man’s treasure and vice versa. Read by Miss Lydia.

Priceless Gifts by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss. Illustrations by John Kanzler. Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, August House, Inc.