Mark Teague

While on vacation, Mrs. LaRue receives letters from her dog Ike who has been falsely accused of harming the neighbor's cats and is trying to clear his name.

In this humorous version of the traditional tale, Jack's magic beanstalk produces so many beans that soon everyone in the village is sick of eating them, and mad at Jack, and when he climbs the beanstalk he finds that Mr. Giant is equally fed up with beans--but fortunately Mrs. Giant suggests a solution to their diet problem.

Poppleton the pig moves from the city to a small town, where he makes new friends and spends Mondays reading adventure books in the library.

In this original version of the traditional tale, the three little pigs are in their usual trouble with the somewhat bad wolf--who is really just very hungry and frustrated that the pizza parlor will not serve him.

Describes how a dinosaur eats, with no rude noises and while sitting very still.

Describes what a young dinosaur should do in order to quickly get over being sick.

Cousin Edward visits Aunt Judy and Uncle Earl on their farm and tries to help with all of the chores.

Told in rhyming text young dinosaurs learn to read, but only after many mishaps, like chewing their books and throwing them at the cat--but eventually they learn to respect their books, and treat them properly.

Mrs. LaRue takes a cross-country drive with her hospitalized neighbor's cats and her own dog, Ike, who keeps the cats' owner informed of their misadventures through a series of postcards.

After a bad beginning, three friends discover that anything can happen on Halloween.