Robert N Munsch

As her son grows up from little boy to adult man, a mother secretly rocks him each night as he sleeps.

"If Jule Ann sits under a tree or in a sandbox, or even wears a raincoat on a sunny day, a mud puddle jumps on her and makes her dirty, until one day she battles the persistent puddle with a bar of soap, chasing it away forever"--OCLC.

"Ciara is tired of hauling her hockey gear across town to play on the rink when there is a perfectly good frozen river in her own backyard! So she builds her own rink on the river. And with a little help from the neighbourhood, she knows that her team, the River Rink Rats, will finally win a game on their own brand new rink. With the excitement and pace of a real hockey match, the River Rink Rats play their final game on their new rink. The pressure...

Megan is told to feed the pigs, but not to open the gate. She does of course, and the results are hilarious as the pigs help themselves to coffee and the newspaper at the breakfast table, follow Megan to school, and ride home by way of the school bus.

Ben brings an unusual show-and-tell to school--his little sister.

Sheila and Michael visit the firehouse and ask to drive a firetruck, and while they don't get to take the wheel, they do manage to go to a fire.

Jonathan goes to City Hall to complain after his nice clean living room is suddenly turned into a messy subway station.

When Aaron hurts his hair's feelings by saying he hates it, his hair runs away and jumps onto other people and into trouble.

Murmel, murmel, murmel, is all Robin hears coming from a hole in her sandbox. When she reaches down and out pops a baby, she finds herself in a real fix: who will take care of it? Robins too little! Off she goes, searching her neighborhood for someone who needs a baby. The woman with seventeen cats doesn't want the baby. Nor does the grumpy man by the bus stop. It looks as though all hope is lost, until a friendly truck driver passes by. He offers...

When Angela's father takes her to the airport, he does not count on the magnitude of the problems she will create, as the young lady winds up taking off in an untended airplane.