When Pinkalicious and her friends try to roast marshmallows at a backyard camping party, it is too windy to keep the campfire lit, but luckily, Gertie the dragon steps in to help out.

It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...

Pinkalicious: A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink. Silverlicious: When Pinkalicious loses her sweet tooth she turns to the Tooth Fairy for help. Goldilicious: Pinkalicious and her brother play with her imaginary gold-horned unicorn that can float on water, fly, and turn herself into a fairy princess. Purplicious: When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink,...

A crafty elf shares all the ways children have tried and failed to catch him.

Barkus is a large and very smart dog who comes to live with seven-year-old Nicky when Nicky's Uncle Everton goes traveling--and soon he is a family and school favorite.

"This carnivorous plant devours everything in its path, but it's not the only one who's hungry"--

During story time the Gingerbread man comes alive, so the children make haste and quickly give chase but he runs too fast and is helped from a storybook cast.

Hank pet sits Otis the very large dog. Otis gets a toothache, and Hank has to take him to the vet.

A little girl befriends a sad, tiny horse, and, with a little magic (and an ice cream cone), helps him fly.

As four very different letters arrive at the playground, each makes the next feel unwelcome, but once they begin to swing together, they have a wonderful time.