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.

Jack describes the kind of car he would build -- one with amazing accessories and with the capability of traveling on land, in the air, and on and under the sea.

A simple housecat named Simon encounters some bigger cats: Lion, Puma, Panther, Tiger, and Cheetah. Each of the big cats has something to say about Simon not being cat enough. According to them, he just doesn't measure up. He doesn't have Lion's mane or Cheetah's spots. He doesn't sleep in trees like Panther or climb mountains like Puma. He's small and fuzzy, not big and strong. But ultimately, Simon shows the big cats that he's just like them . ....

Sometimes the biggest stories come from the smallest beginnings ... Meet Tad. She's the smallest tadpole in a big pond, and lives there with all her tadbrothers and tadsisters. Although something else lives there too ... BIG BLUB! And when everyone else starts to disappear, Tad starts to wonder if Big Blub will get her too ... Or is everyone else going somewhere else; somewhere better? And if so, will Tad ever get there too? A big story about a tiny...

Large, small, or as big as a mountain--somewhere there is a rock waiting for every single person.

Includes four humorous verse fantasies: The Sneetches, The Zax, Too Many Daves, and What was I Scared of?

"A nurturing voice reassures the lonely and afraid in difficult times"--

"In the hills above Port-au-Prince, a young girl named Fallon wants more than anything to carry a large woven basket to the market, just like her Manman. As she watches her mother wrap her hair in a mouchwa, Fallon tries to twist her own braids into a scarf and balance the empty panye atop her head, but realizes it's much harder than she thought"--

A young boy imagines the fantastic animals and incredible acts he will have for his greatest of all circuses.

When Buzz, his parents, and his pet fly go on a road trip and get lost, Fly Guy comes to the rescue to help them find their way home.