Stevenson, James

At the Mud Flat Olympics, if the animals don't win the Deepest Hole Contest, the All-Snail High Hurdles, or the River-Cross Freestyle, they can still come to the picnic after the games and have ice cream for dessert.

The reader joins Freddy Fafnaffer the pig as he deals with Mr. Frimdimpny, a crocodile who never laughs and who decides on the rules for reading this book.

Readers are requested not to laugh or do anything to influence the behavior of various animal characters in this book.

Drawings portray grandpa touring the city, encountering on each page objects, animals, and people whose names begin with a particular letter of the alphabet.

A collection of short poems with such titles as "Popcorn," "Driftwood," and "My new bird book.".

Despite Delores and Lavinia's nasty cards, Emma the witch and her friends have a wonderful Valentine's Day.

Emma struggles in her New Year's resolution to be nicer to the other witches Dolores and Lavinia, as they persist in being dreadful to her, until their relationship climaxes in a dreadful revenge on New Year's Day.

Only Chester, who has literally fallen into a job at the Supreme Souvenir Factory, can save it from being taken over by the sinister and greedy Mr. Sashwayte.

Grandpa tells Louie and Mary Ann of the dreadful Halloween night that turned him into an old man.

Tossed in garbage cans after they are replaced by new toys at Christmas, a teddy bear and a doll are befriended by a stray dog.