Mike Thaler

If kids thought the Teacher and the Principal from the Black Lagoon were scary, wait until they meet the gym teacher! There's a new gym teacher transferring over from the junior high, and Hubie is worried. The junior high students say he's big, mean, and blows his whistle a lot. Will Hubie really have to run a lap around the world to pass Mr. Green's class? Will he be able to lift Mr. Green's pickup truck and climb up a rope while it's on fire? Mike...

On the first day of school, a young boy expects only the worst when he discovers that his new teacher is the "monstrous" Mrs. Green.

The Black Lagoon kids have various adventures on their first class trip.

When a new cafeteria lady starts, the kids worry about what kind of food she will prepare.

After relating all of the horrible things the school custodian, Fester Smudge, is known to have done, a student whose locker won't open needs Mr. Smudge's help.

Everyone has to run for an office in Mrs. Green's class election.

This comical picture book series expores a youngster's fearful anticipation of the new and unknown. Hilariously illustarted, these playfully frightful adventures culminate in tremendous relief when our wary young hero's fears are untimately unfounded.

It's Dental Heath Month, and some strange dentist is going to be poking his head into the mouths of all the students. Hubie has heard all kinds of wild things about dentists. Some say they have four hands and two heads, and that they put crazy things like bridges and crowns in people's mouths. How on earth can you fit a bridge in someone's mouth? When it's Hubie's turn to show off his choppers, he's obviously very nervous. What on earth will the dentist...

"It's the end of March, and Hubie is struggling to prepare his pranks for the big day. The whoopee cushion, the rubber tarantula, and the fly in the ice cube just aren't good enough anymore--not when the worst joke comes from the place he least expects it"--P. [4] of cover.

A boy hears all sorts of crazy rumors about the faculty at his school.