"Discusses the best ten fish for kids to keep as pets and includes each species' appearance, general behavior, and special needs"--Provided by publisher.
Emma tries several pets before she becomes best friends with her parakeet Henry, but she finds that friendship threatened when her brother Bruce buys another parakeet.
Contains four children's stories, including "Children Make Terrible Pets," in which Lucy, a young bear, discovers a boy lost in the woods and she asks her mother if she can have him as a pet, only to find him impossible to train.
When Rita's mother refuses to get her a pet, Rita goes to the zoo and returns with a rhinoceros--but keeping a pet rhino a secret proves to be much trickier than she ever imagined.
Holly's dream comes true when she gets a puppy that she names Woody, but he needs to be trained, so when she enters him in a dog contest at the fair, she is surprised when Woody wins a special prize.
