Fox babysits for the miserable Ling children, makes a big scene when he slips on a skate and hurts himself, and gets to lead the band in the big parade.

Relates several episodes in the friendship of two hippopotamuses.

Hippo companions George and Martha learn simple lessons about friendship in several adventures, in which George offends Martha by telling her to go away, the two reach a compromise over their worrying habits, George breaks a promise, and Martha loses George's birthday present.

Though their friendship is often tested, George and Martha survive with a sense of humor.

At the end of summer Spud and Joe eagerly return to school for more practical jokes, unaware that Principal Lamar J. Spurgle is out of retirement and awaiting them.

The notorious Miss Swamp reappears at the Horace B. Smedley School, this time to shape up the football team and make them win at least one game.

Spud and Joe are determined to catch the mysterious prankster who keeps getting them into trouble when they spend their summer at Camp Custer with Mary Frances Hooley and Lamar J. Spurgle.

An illustrated adaptation of Ogden Nash's poem about a fearless little girl named Isabel, featuring text as originally published in the 1930s. Includes an audio CD.

When the thing from outer space visits earth, it is taken first for a trick-or-treater and then for a robot.

Old Mother Hubbard runs errand after errand for her remarkable dog.