I read these 18 stories to my daughter recently, and we both enjoyed (most of) them:

Peter Leithart. Wise Words: Family Stories That Bring the Proverbs to Life. 3rd ed. Moscow, ID: Canon, 2003. 148 pp.

We also listened to the stories.

They are fairy-tale type stories that are generally captivating and end with surprising twists, always ending with a proverb from the Book of Proverbs that is the moral of the story.

Several of the stories have humor for kids (e.g., the inspectors from “the Ministry of Nasty Smells” and “the Ministry for the Elimination of Yucky Food” in story 10) and humor for parents (the young man named “Braxton Hicks” in story 16).

They also have some gems like this: “Lazy people, as you may know, are bored most of the time, and bored people are usually lazy too” (p. 83).

A few of the stories are a little odd, especially story 11, which doesn’t present an ideal God-figure. My literary criticism is probably not sophisticated enough to appreciate that one.

Here are references to the 18 “morals” that correspond to the 18 stories (listed in the TOC below):

1. Proverbs 4:7–9
2. Proverbs 1:20–23
3. Proverbs 3:11–12
4. Proverbs 4:18–19
5. Proverbs 6:24–26
6. Proverbs 12:11
7. Proverbs 13:11
8. Proverbs 13:12
9. Proverbs 18:13
10. Proverbs 19:5
11. Proverbs 20:24
12. Proverbs 20:26
13. Proverbs 20:28
14. Proverbs 21:19
15. Proverbs 23:5
16. Proverbs 26:14–16
17. Proverbs 29:23
18. Proverbs 31:10