humorous fiction

On the way in his little red car to share a big pot of stew with his friend, Mr. Winkle is unaware of the long procession forming behind him.

Billy, Willy, Dilly, and Lilly take turns being silly.

Sidekick Speedy tries to save the beautiful Prudence from the Mole Master, hoping that his superhero sponsor, Pumpkin Pete, will help him for a change instead of running away.

Two Viennese university students in 1967 decide to reenact the World War II liberation of the Vienna Zoo--an action that has both comic and gruesome consequences.

Leaving his parents, his Mad Uncle Jack, and his Even Madder Aunt Maud at home at Awful End, Eddie Dickens, along with the color-blind Lady Constance, boards the ship the Pompous Pig on a mission to America.

Twelve-year-old Eddie Dickens survives encounters with an escape artist in a runaway hearse's coffin, a hot air balloon bearing the escape artist's lovely assistant, a gas explosion, and a jewel thief on the run.

When calamity stalks every step of the preparations for the Tappletons' Thanksgiving dinner, they realize there is more to Thanksgiving than turkey and trimmings.

Osmo gets confused when he tries to figure out who's playing where.

Relates the misadventures of Miss Armitage as she makes increasingly complicated modifications of her bicycle.

Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.