A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.

A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.

"If a big hungry moose comes to visit, you might give him a muffin to make him feel at home. If you give him a muffin, he'll want some jam to go with it. When he's eaten all your muffins, he'll want to go to the store to get some more muffin mix. In this hilarious sequel to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, the young host is again run ragged by a surprise guest. Young readers will delight in the comic complications that follow when a little boy entertains...

Rhyming verses ask readers to find hidden objects in the photographs.

Little Toot, the tugboat, conquers his fear of rough seas when he singlehandedly rescues an ocean liner during a storm.

While Frederick the field mouse sat on the wall his brothers gathered food for the winter. Although they accused him of not doing his share of the work, when the food ran out Frederick saved the day with what he had gathered.

Billy and his loyal pony Blaze attempt to tame the wild horse Thunderbolt.

Junie B. Jones learns some interesting things about the Tooth Fairy when she becomes the first student in Room One to lose an upper tooth.

When a lazy bird hatching an egg wants a vacation, she asks Horton, the elephant, to sit on her egg--which he does through all sorts of hazards until he is rewarded for doing what he said he would.

An account of how the author came to be a writer and selections from his writer's notebook augment stories juxtaposing fantasy and truth, and peopled with outrageous and courageous characters.