(Viking Kestrel Picture Books)

Lola the cat sets off in search of a delicious dinner in this charming, funny animal story, perfect for early readers.

A Jolly Postman delivers Christmas cards to several famous fairy-tale characters. Each card may be removed from its envelope page and read separately

Introduces the serious and fun activities of students just starting school.

Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.

Madeline and the other girls travel to London to visit their former neighbor on his birthday.

After the frog turns into a prince, he and the Princess do not live happily ever after and the Prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation.

This gorgeously illustrated, full-color classic celebrates a time before email by depicting amusing correspondence between fairy tale and Mother Goose characters. What could possibly be in a letter from Goldilocks to the Three Bears? Who would write to the Wicked Witch? Open this book, take out the letters, and discover what favorite characters would write to each other--and reimagine best-loved tales together.

As Mr. Potter discovers, operating a grocery store is no easy business, especially when the competition takes all the business.

Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

Spot, his classmates, and their teacher, Miss Bear, spend a bright, sunny day exploring the woods together.

An old man bets each of his children that they cannot fill the barn for a penny.

When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales is the ultimate in fractured fairy tales. Not only do the characters create their own stories, they also design the structure of the book itself. Classic fairy tales are deconstructed and rewritten with different but recognizable names, such as The Princess and the Bowling Ball, The Really Ugly Duckling, The Tortoise and the Hair and Chicken Licken. These stories and their characters intersect and create a mish-mash of narratives. Scieszka also mocks the conventions of books in general; the title page, dedication, and even the public information page have all been deconstructed. For example, Scieszka sneaks in the line “Anyone caught telling these fairly stupid tales will be visited, in person, by the Stinky Cheese Man” on the publication data page.

A madcap variation of the cumulative nursery rhyme, this time beginning when Jack writes a book.

Pinocchio has been turned into a boy but no one, not even he, realizes it as he walks through Collodi-town trying to get some hot chicken soup for Geppetto.

A transmission received from outer space in a combination of different Earth languages tells of an alien schoolboy's fantastic excuse for being late to school again.

Lentil's harmonica playing saves the day when calamity threatens the homecoming celebration for the leading citizen of Alto, Ohio

Burt goes fishing, takes refuge from a storm in a whale's stomach, and decorates a whole school of whales' tails with striped band-aids.

Contemporary fables with tongue-in-cheek morals address such topics as homework, curfews, and television commercials.