humorous fiction

As Amelia Bedelia helps Mrs. Rogers prepare for Christmas, she bakes a date cake with a calendar in it and stuffs the children's stockings with turkey stuffing.

Contains a collection of seventy, humorous stories from around the world; and offers country of origin for each selection as well as a bibliography and background information on humor, folklore, and the benefits of laughter.

Attorney Dave Douglas is bitten by a sheepdog and suddenly turns into one; but to make matters worse, he uncovers a plot involving the sheepdog's DNA and the corporation he is representing in court.

When Magic Matt tries to conjure up a rubber duck to play with while he takes a bath, he makes a skunk appear instead and must think of a way to get rid of the terrible smell.

After successfully meeting the challenges posed by a dog, cat, and horse, Simon meets a tiger that is much harder to satisfy and that he must outwit before he becomes the tiger's dinner.

When the Dumb Bunnies visit the zoo, they let all the animals out of their cages because they mistake a butterfly for an escaped lion.

Relates what happens when a little boy named Sam matches wits with several tigers that want to eat him (a retelling of Little Black Sambo).

Jack Rabbit finds himself in all kinds of trouble after he trades his lunch for some magic jellybeans.

In this story, loosely based on that of Cinderella but featuring dinosaurs, the Duke falls in love with Dinorella when she rescues him from the dreaded deinonychus at the Dinosaur Dance.

Slender Ella, a pig forced into servitude by her stepmother and two horrid stepsisters, goes to the hoedown with the help of her Fairy Hogfather and marries the handsome son of the Goldsnoots of Diamond Snout Hay Ranch.