"Based on the original Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown"--T.p. verso. A picture book version of the story in which a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, and he finds that being flat has its advantages.

A collection of illustrated stories for beginning readers, including Robert Lopshire's "I Want to Be Somebody New," P. D. Eastman's "Sam and the Firefly," Mike McClintock's "Stop that Ball!" Joan Heilbroner's "Robert the Rose Horse," Al Perkins' "The Digging-est Dog," and Marilyn Sadler's "The Very Bad Bunny."

Mercy the pig is in for a Halloween adventure when Mr. and Mrs. Watson decide to dress her up as a princess and take her trick-or-treating.

Mrs. McGee is surprised to find that opening a coconut is not as easy as she expected, and when she knocks the coconut out the door, it leads Mrs. McGee on a grand adventure across town.

On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.

Mercy the pig's love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy.

The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.

Sometimes Little Critter remembers things, and sometimes he just forgets.

When Lucy, a young bear, discovers a boy lost in the woods, she asks her mother if she can have him as a pet, only to find him impossible to train.