Gr 1-3 Gackenbach's half dozen rhymes in this addition to the tongue twister collection are spoiled, at times, by text and art that do not match. The ``fish'' with a grin who pulls the young fisher named Fisher into the Wisher is a porpoisea mammal, ...
Alice tells her mother about her special room, where she can play with her cat who died, enjoy the warm beach in January, go sledding on a hot summer day, and do anything she has already done in the past...
Second-grade genius Sidney comes up with a brand-new invention, a Mini-Box machine that can shrink him down to the size of a mouse, but Sidney soon discovers that being small brings its own unexpected complications....
Arriving home to find no one there, a little boy begins to imagine the worst about the disappearance of his family--from a kidnapping by aliens to an invasion of a giant crocodile--until he discovers a clue to the whereabouts of his missing family....
Consuming quantities of fine food every day and refusing to share with anyone, Mr. Gobble attracts the attention of a hungry dog, Barker, and has the poor canine arrested for sniffing his food and "stealing its aroma."...