When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.
While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
Edwina the friendly neighborhood dinosaur, friend to children and grown-ups alike, finds a foe in young Reginald Von Hoobie-Doobie, who insists that she is extinct.
Cassidy, feeling left out at Ghostville Elementary, finds a creepy old doll that even the ghosts seem to be afraid of, and soon realizes she has the power to learn ghostly secrets.
Mandy Hope, daughter of veterinarians, gets a package in the mail that contains a box of candy corn along with an adorable black kitten, and long with her friends comes up with a plan to find the kitten a home.
Contains three novellas in which Katie Carew sees Christmas from several points of view when she suddenly changes places with her neighbor, a department store gift-wrapper, and one of Santa's elves.
Despite the opposition of Ancient Eric and Malcolm, Limpy goes on a quest to find a place where cane toads can be safe from humans and live in harmony.
