Mother cat sends blue kitten and yellow kitten on an errand by themselves and they imagine all the hideous things that might happen to them during their trip.
Matthew is unable to keep his shoelaces tied until he trades them for a magic pair, but the magic laces refuse to untie unless he can pass them on to a new victim.
Little x is missing from Charley's Alphabet, and the other lowercase letters go off to solve the mystery of his disappearance, learning in the end how valuable a little x can be.
A rhyming nonsense tale featuring a series of impossible occurrences, such as a bald-headed baby with hair hanging over its eyes and an egg-laying rooster.