Barbara Bottner

A first-grade girl who does not like to read stubbornly resists her school librarian's efforts to convince her to love books until she finds one that might change her mind.

Clarissa invites all of her stuffed animals to a tea party, but they refuse to attend because they think she has mistreated them.-- Provided by Publisher.

"Priscilla is obsessed with gorillas. But when her ape-like behavior gets her sent to the Thinking Corner, Priscilla wonders if she is really channeling her inner gorilla, or just being a troublemaker"-- Provided by publisher.

Best friends and beginner fairies Pish and Posh receive encouragement from the Monster Under the Bed as they each try to make four wise wishes in order to earn their wings.

When a young boy goes to stay with his grandmother, who has twisted her ankle, he teaches her about baseball and she inspires him to enjoy playing the piano.

Lulu wants her birthday to be special and she does not want to share it with her baby sister, so she decides to spend it at the zoo with a gorilla who is also turning eight.

A child looks back on the day and drifts off to sleep, one body part at a time.

A school librarian encourages her students to make up stories, and teaches a lesson about bullying in the process.

When Rosemary mistakenly thinks that everyone has forgotten her birthday, she sulks both at home and at school.

Imagine a preschool classroom with 25 cranky kids and one beleaguered teacher. It only takes one small annoying act from Adelaide to set off a chain reaction of bad behavior. Dexter is drooling, Flora is fuming, Jasper is jeering, Kirby is kicking...and before you know it, Stella is stumbling, Todd is tumbling and Winthrop is weeping. Oh, oh, oh! What will it take to turn this annoying day around? Readers will be amazed and amused to see what happens...