Peter Brown

After having fun running around the house naked and wild, young Fred decides to get dressed--in his parents' closet--with surprising results.

Wanting desperately to win the First Annual Fabu Pooch Pageant and its prize of a year's worth of Snarf Snacks, Chowder the bulldog decides to use a trampoline in his act to impress the judges in a high-flying demonstration they won't soon forget.

Chowder the bulldog has never fit in with the other neighborhood canines, but he sees a chance to make friends with the animals at the local petting zoo.

After asking the reader to think of something spectacular, the narrator sets out to prove his ability to read minds by describing a preposterous situation and characters.

Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants. "Cuando Roz abre los ojos por primera vez, descubre que está sola en una isla remota y salvaje. No tiene idea de cómo llegó ahí pero sabe que necesita sobrevivir. Después de enfrentarse a una feroz tormenta...

Third-grader Kaline Klattermaster's father has gone somewhere and his mother cannot seem to keep everything straight the way he did, but the two brothers and one hundred dogs that live in his imaginary treehouse--and his strange neighbor Mr. Osiris Putnaminski--help him cope with his father's absence, his mother's forgetfulness, and the bullies that torment him in school.

"When Jasper Rabbit finds a purple crayon willing to do his schoolwork for him, he is elated--at first"--

"El conejo Jasper ya no es un conejito. No tiene miedo de la oscuridad, y definitivamente no tiene miedo de algo tan tonto como la ropa interior. Pero cuando las luces se apagan, de repente sus calzoncillos brillan en la oscuridad. Un brillo verdoso y espantoso. Si Jasper fuera miedoso diria que su ropa interior es un poco, bueno, espeluznante. Pero Jasper, obviamente, no tiene miedo y acaba con los espeluznantes calzoncillos. Pero despues de intentarlo...

This collection of four stories teaches children about going green, kindness, and problem solving.