humorous fiction

In the absence of his older brother, the Great Brain, J.D. finds that his own little brain can accomplish feats on a somewhat lesser scale.

Four easily confused friends find their own way to celebrate Halloween.

When Bonnie Bumble eats five plum turnovers for breakfast one morning, her whole world is turned upside down.

After Tommy and Annika entice Pippi into going to school, her first-and-only day there is unlike anything they ever expected.

At bedtime, a young boy enters the outer space-patterned wallpaper in his room and has adventures with a band of spacemice.

The Fieldmouse family take the train to visit Uncle Alfred and Aunt Kate--but not all at once.

Pandemonium reigns when a boy's bathtub overflows and floods the Irish town of Ballymara.

Aunt Betty sends Charlie an old Transylvanian gypsy recipe for chocolate fudge cake which calls for cobwebs and dried Carpathian tree toad flakes.

Julie's grandmother deflates many of her husband's tall tales about their journey from Russia to America and their life on Hester Street.

Following the instructions in an old notebook her great aunt Eclair mailed to her, Loulou takes her pet fish to a tailor, to charm school, and to tea, causing him to become the toast of the town.