An illustrated collection of five stories by Canadian author Robert Munsch, including "Smelly Socks," "More Pies!" "Zoom!" "Boo!" and "The Sandcastle Contest," with accounts of how each book came to be written.
Life is always interesting in twelve-year-old Lindsey's family, whether her mother is going off to summer camp to escape the kids or big brother Eric is being forced into a bird-calling contest by a bet with a neighbor.
These fifteen evocative short stories and novellas tour the poignant history that always haunts immigrants, survivors of war, and our consistent technological advances as they are explored through love, race, and politics.
Contains sixteen short detective stories, featuring selections by Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Isaac Asimov, and others, and includes seven mini-mysteries for the reader to solve.
Contains four stories by H. P. Lovecraft, including his "At the Mountains of Madness," in which Dryer and Danforth encounter a strange alien civilization when they set out to explore the Antarctic continent, and get sent to space as Earth's ambassadors.