Pinkwater, Daniel Manus

A young Jewish boy sets out on a grand adventure with his sled dogs, and along the way he meets up with a variety of different characters.

When the mystic seer of Hoboken and the employees of the Magic Moscow summon the ghost of a famous person, they get a punster with a collection of 1500-year-old jokes.

Roger's umbrella becomes increasingly more wild and uncontrollable until he meets three old ladies who teach him how to talk to it.

When left to take care of himself, a young boy becomes involved with a community of intelligent lizards who tell him of a little known invasion from outer space.

Contains three stories that follow the adventures of a blue moose after he took refuge from the cold in Mr. Breton's restaurant at the edge of the big woods where he learned to wait tables, wrote a book, solved a mystery, and took a vacation in Hollywood.

Ralph and Sylvia Nebula and their friend Mavis Goldfarb are bitter at being sent to a bogus weight-loss camp, so they decide to escape and find a way to take revenge on those responsible for promoting the idea that thin is better.

The family's new pet kitten grows at such a ridiculous rate that the father must bring home animals to compare its size each day.

To escape the problems of being poor and Chinese, Donald begins to cut school to climb the George Washington Bridge where he meets Wingman, a sort of Chinese Superman.

The Wild Dada Ducks members cause all sorts of mischief around their junior high school, but although the boys are not bad, they like to pretend that they are true dadaists with unintentional and irrational behavior.

Fourth-grader Norman Gnormal, who behaves a lot like a dog, finds his first real friends when the principal signs him up for the Werewolf Club at school.