Orphaned by the death of their parents and bereft by the sudden death of their older brother Tom, nine-year-old Frances and three-year-old Henry are comforted by Tom's ghost, who helps them in difficult situations at home with their aunt and uncle and at school.
"Oh, your daddy was a baby once / And your mommy was a baby once ..." Characters in these nineteen diverse poems also include a soccer-playing Cinderella, snowmen who take holidays by the sea, dancing sausages, and three Unwise Men.
Catching a baby in his hat sets off a series of adventures for a young nineteenth-century English boy as he becomes a sea captain and finds a surprising mate.
One minute Eric is a normal young boy, the next he turns into a shaggy dog. Hilarious and hair-raising adventures follow when Eric and his best friend Roy set out to find the cause of this crazy condition.
A strange creature, which initially looks like a cat, appears in the yard of Davy's house one day and proceeds to destroy his family's life by "hypnotizing" everyone but Davy and his little brother.
