Scieszka, Jon

When in Rome... Ome minute the guys are wrestling around in Joe's room. The next minute The Book has transported them back to ancient Rome - Face to face with one big ol' gladiator.

Boys use a magic book to travel through time and space to comedic adventures with King Arthur and Blackbeard.

Thanks to the magic of the Book, Joe, Sam, and Fred are back in the wild, wild West - and it's proving to be way too wild.

Sam pointed out to the ocean. We could just see the front of a sailing shop appearig form the edge of the island. "Hey, it looks like a ship," said Fred. "Three guesses what kind of ship, Einstein," said Sam. "And the first two don't count." We clutched our trees and watched the front of the ship turn into what looked like a huge wooden ocean liner. Except this ocean liner had cannons. And it was flying a flag from its mast-a black flag with a white skull. "Oh, no," said Fred. He went back up the tree. Fast.

Joe, Fred, and Sam are about to go on stage in their school play about Greek myths when Fred's lightning bolt accidentally knocks their script into The Book (the magic one, that is). Wouldn't you know it; they get warped back to Mount Olympus-and land in the middle of a feud between the gods and goddesses and the monsters of ancient Greece. Even though Sam's snappy insults ge them invited over for nectar and ambrosia, and Joe's magic tricks wow the crowd, the boys know they'd better get home before their odyssey turns into a Greek tragedy...

In their latest time travel adventure, Fred, Joe, and Sam da Brooklyn meet Leonardo da Vinci and try to avoid becoming toilet scrubbers in a sixteenth-century Italian army.

Presents wacky retellings of ten well-known fairy tales such as "Chicken Little," "The Princess and the Pea," and "The Gingerbread Man.".

The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the Wild West of yesteryear, rubbing elbows with cowboys and Indians.

Presents a story about a teacher who tells his class that they can hear the poetry of science in everything and a student is struck with a curse where he hears nothing but science verses that sound very much like some well-known poems.