Stick Man ends up far away from his family tree when he is fetched by a dog, thrown by a child, used as a snowman's arm, and even put in a fireplace, but finally Santa Claus steps in to make sure that Stick Man and his family have a joyous Christmas.

A boy imagines a series of incredible sights on his way home from school so that he will have an interesting report to give his father.

At sunset, when their work is done for the day, a crane truck, a cement mixer, and other pieces of construction equipment make their way to their resting places and go to sleep.

Jesse Bear, what will you wear? What will you wear in the morning? My shirt of red pulled over my head over my head in the morning.

Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text invite the reader to a community garden where potatoes close their eyes, cabbages nod their heads, and corn covers its ears to go to sleep.

The waitress in this restaurant just doesn't have a clue. Monsters don't eat broccoli. How could she think we do? These fearsome but finicky monsters insist they don't like food from the garden--leave that to the humans. They'd rather snack on tractors or a rocket ship or two, or tender trailer tidbits or a wheely, steely stew. But boy, do those trees they're munching on look an awful lot like broccoli. Maybe vegetables aren't so bad after all.

A boy imagines the rare and wonderful fish he might catch in McElligot's pool.

Illustrations and rhyming text describe the activities of animals living in and near a small pond as spring progresses to autumn.

On Halloween night, a not-so-scary skeleton, who just wants a friend, accidentally scares a group of trick-or-treaters.

Mabel blows a bubble that captures Baby and wafts him away, resulting in a wild chase that involves the whole neighborhood.