In three separate stories, children help adults solve problems related to food, first by saving a restaurant from being shut down, second by untangling a mess in a spaghetti factory, and finally by selling donuts to raise funds for a stolen car.
Her self-centered insistence on the birthday gift of her choice causes the young Princess Rosamond to spend seven years as an unwilling member of a traveling band of gypsies, during which she becomes worthy to assume the throne of her kingdom.
Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.
Ollie Octopus, Bucky Beaver, Howie Hogg, and other animal characters encounter moral dilemmas involving such virtues as honesty, thoughtfulness, and trustworthiness. The reader is invited to select the appropriate behavior from a series of choices.
A cautionary tale, written in nonsense verse similar in style to Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," in which a brave mouse named Jam breaks the rules and goes on a moonlit adventure.
When her mother becomes too ill to harvest tea on the nearby plantation, Shenaz is too small to fill in, but when she tells the monkeys she has befriended why she is sad, they bring her a basket filled with rare and valuable wild tea.
