humorous fiction

Stella Gibbons' 1932 novel in which a young, educated orphan girl arrives at Cold Comfort Farm and sets her melodramatic relatives straight; has been called a satire of such authors as Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence.

Natalie and her playboy fianc? Pierre, a French couple touring America by bus, find a whole different way of life, and perhaps love, when they become stranded in the very small town of Seldom, Nebraska.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text introduce a guppy with some unusual interests, such as shopping, mopping, and playing the guitar.

Gilbert the goldfish enjoys his life with a castle, treasure chest, and food that falls from the sky, but what he really wants is a pet.

Sy Kravitz, a Brooklyn fruit seller, is suddenly invisible, but the fun he has quickly fades when Sy finds himself being blamed for everything and anything and is forced to go on the run.

An older sister lists all the things she would willingly share with her younger sister, such as her broccoli and her chores. Includes suggested learning activities.

One day Shelley discovers socks all over her bedroom and then finds a tiny boy in her sock drawer.

While putting on a Halloween pageant, the alphabet mixes things up with some spooky, and funny, results.

A family of ferrets takes a trip to the grocery store where mom has trouble keeping up with the groceries, the cart, and the kids, but baby Edwin could help if he could just get someone to listen to his advice.

A gatefold flap book in which Wilson, who has finished a week of school and likes his new teacher, Miss lovely, finds that something is eerily wrong when nobody else is around, no school buses show up, and he has to send himself to the principal's office.