Upon moving to Hoboken, New Jersey, a boy convinces his two new friends to help him track down the mysterious phantom who stole his bicycle, as well as Arthur Bobowicz, owner of a giant chicken that once terrorized local citizens.
When the mystic seer of Hoboken and the employees of the Magic Moscow summon the ghost of a famous person, they get a punster with a collection of 1500-year-old jokes.
In the 1960s, Harold, a Chicago teenager with a special affection for Bushman, the departed gorilla of the Lincoln Park Zoo, embarks on a quest to become a great artist and figure out how he became the object of a famous folk song.
Irving and Muktuk, two polar bears, enjoy themselves so much when Larry comes to visit them that the next time they escape from the zoo in Bayonne, New Jersey, they decide to pay a visit themselves.
After he eats an eighth of a ton of ice cream at Cohen's Cones, Larry the polar bear happily becomes the spokesbear for the Iceberg Ice-Cream Company under the slogan, "I do not feel sick.".
Unavailable for several years, the five complete novels gathered in this volume have won Pinkwater legions of fans since the first was published in 1978.
