Gilman, Phoebe

When pirates, attracted by the smell of home-cooked noodle pudding, abduct Grandma and her parrot, clever Melissa comes up with a plot to set Grandma free.

Jillian makes a lot of stuffed pigs to sell. Includes instructions at the end of the story for making a pig.

Jillian loves to play and is always too busy to clean her room. Then comes a day when she is left with no choice but to clean her room.

In this retelling of a traditional Jewish folktale, Joseph's baby blanket is transformed into ever smaller items as he grows until there is nothing left--but then Joseph has an idea.

When Grandma sets her noodle pudding on the sill to cool, its wonderful aroma drifts out to sea- and attracts some very hungry pirates.