Even Mr. Bungles the teacher sometimes has a day when, no matter how hard he tries, everything seems to go wrong--including allowing the class hamster, Nibbles, to escape.
Jeremy's teacher tells him he belongs in a zoo, but when she pays a home visit she learns how close that is to the truth as she sees the floormingos, a refrigergator, armapillows, and other living things that make up his house.
Presents two brief illustrated stories, set in France, as the persistent boyfriend of Julien's teacher becomes a nuisance when he uses the class's new telephone/fax machine to express his love and a homework assignment involving autographs has everyone excited in Claudette's class.
the incredible illusions of Ethan Flask and Professor von Offel
Capeci, Anne
2000
Strange sightings make for sticky situations at Einstein Elementary after Professor von Offel creates a light-beam projector that makes people see what they want to see, and its beam falls on Mr. Flask's orangutan.
the explosive escapades of Ethan Flask and Professor von Offel
Burkett, Kathy
2000
Good news and bad news arrive for Ethan Flask, the sixth-grade science teacher at Einstein Elementary: he is in the running for the Vanguard Teacher Award, but the judge is his archenemy, Professor John von Offel.
A first grader is frightened on her first day of school after hearing a rumor that her teacher is a 300-year-old alien with a purple tongue who steals baby teeth from her students.