When his little sister's magic cookies transform him into a flying, fire-breathing superhero, ten-year-old Horace Splattly has adventures which include confronting the monster at the school playground.

As the school year begins on Mars, Horus the Martian gets off to a rocky start, but soon discovers that first grade is not really as bad as he thought.

When AJ's class has a talent show, AJ discovers he doesn't have a talent.

When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.

When the words in the dictionary get bored and leave to attend a convention in Hollyword, it is up to Noah Webster to restore (alphabetical) order.

"Children have fun at school experiencing familiar classroom activities for the first time"--

""It's a perfect day to catch a cat," muses a dog. But to his annoyance, all he seems to find are things that rhyme with cat"--

Telling his faithful dog to make sure nobody touches his clothes but him, a cowboy jumps into a New Mexico river for a bath, not realizing just how much the scrubbing will change his scent.

Bored with sweet, boring picture books about cute and fluffy creatures, a group of unpopular animals tries to write an adventure story featuring themselves, with unwanted help from over-eager Bunny.

Stanley's people are so preoccupied with primping him for the dog show in the park that they forgot his breakfast and soon he and his dogfriends are determined to eat the show's grand prize--the biggest, most scrumptious-smelling dog cookie ever!