Ahlberg, Allan

Mrs. Gaskitt the taxi driver, Mr. Gaskitt the heavily dressed man, and their twins, Gus and Gloria, foil a bank robbery.

A young girl uses her imagination to turn a routine shopping trip with her mother and baby brother into a grand adventure.

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.

The adventures of various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters, including Goldilocks, Jack and Jill, the frog prince, Cinderella, and the gingerbread man, are retold in backward sequence with each tale interrelated to the other.

Esmeralda the pig is jointly owned by kindly Mrs. Harbottle and her nasty ex-husband Mr. Harbottle who wants to turn Esmeralda into sausages.

A friendly, helpful fellow named Bert embarks on a series of adventures involving a troublesome shirt, a walking sausage, and a floating, barking cardboard box.

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.

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.

It is an exciting couple of days for the Gaskitt family and their community--with missing pets, an unusual substitute teacher, and a special addition to their household.

Bert receives a disastrous haircut, loses his dog, and discovers that there are many other Berts in the world.