Convinced that crossing the river on the back of Monty the alligator is too slow, the animals try to find a faster way to get their children to school.

Grandpa tells Mary Ann and Louie how he and his brother, Wainey, coped with a massive rainfall when they were young.

In the first of two easy-to-read stories a turtle and a snail make some friends with the help of a skateboard. In the second a mouse and a snail learn, through trial and error, how to be friends.

Mean witches Dolores and Lavinia torment Emma and her friends and retreat to the cool comfort of the beach, but their victims strike back with a creative form of revenge.

Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting.

Simsbury is sitting under his favorite tree when a red chair and an accordion pass by, prompting him to get up and take a look at the Mud Flats Yard Sale.

Emma struggles in her New Year's resolution to be nicer to the other witches Dolores and Lavinia, as they persist in being dreadful to her, until their relationship climaxes in a dreadful revenge on New Year's Day.

James Stevenson remembers what it was like growing up in a village, sometimes taking the train to New York City, and waiting to get older.

Two stories--the first featuring three pugnacious walruses, the second, a stranded penguin.

The reader is encouraged to turn the page and view the amusing results.