Ahlberg, Allan

All the Gaskitts have a bad day when the baby rolls away in a shopping cart, the twins' teacher acts peculiar, and a lost bird tries to hypnotize the cat.

Three skeletons have a good time on their sailing vacation, until their boat is boarded by pirates.

Three skeletons have fun when they take a train ride one dark, dark night--until something scares them.

A little black cat watches the antics of three skeletons sledding in the snow.

"This is the story of a picture book doomed from the very start. Allan has a good idea for a book about a crocodile, but every time he sits down to write, he's interrupted. The manuscript gets soaked in coffee, nibbled by snails, and when Bruce gets started on the pictures, he gets overexcited and draws a hippo, not a crocodile, at which point the publishers get overexcited too--they want a dinosaur and experiment with all kinds of different fonts. Allan and Bruce finally think they've straightened things out, when the book goes off to the printer and--you guessed it--the trouble really starts"--OCLC.

A lonely pencil draws Banjo, and also a dog, a cat, and other people, but when the characters start complaining about their appearance, the writing instrument draws an eraser, which starts to create chaos.

A young boy named Banjo Cannon always eats a sausage for dinner, until the night that his sausage--and the rest of his meal--runs away.

Two skeletons visit the pet shop several times before finding the perfect pet.

Contains stories in verse of a mighty slide, a man who fought crocodiles, a girl who doubled, a couple of babyskinners, and a thing that lived under a school.