***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER***"Where in this racket can Nanny be? When you get invited to a kitchen party at your grandmother's house, there may be certain things you don't expect to find: like moose and foxes and bears! In this...
Humorous stories
- Auteur:North, RebeccaSommaire:
- Auteur:McCall Smith, AlexanderSommaire:
When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he...
- Auteur:Munsch, RobertSommaire:
What in the world is Robin going to do with the baby she finds in her sandbox? 'Murmel, murmel, murmel,' is all Robin hears coming from a hole in her sandbox. When she reaches down and out pops a baby, she finds herself in a real fix:...
- Auteur:Munsch, RobertSommaire:
When Jule Ann goes outside in her brand-new clothes, a mud puddle jumps on her and gets her completely dirty. The mud gets in her ears, eyes, and even her mouth. Jule Ann's mother scrubs her clean and puts her in new clothes, but every...
- Auteur:Gutman, DanSommaire:
A.J. and his friends are afraid that Ms.Todd, their substitute teacher, has killed their regular teacher and is trying to take over her job.
- Auteur:Gutman, Dan.Sommaire:
The new lunch lady at Ella Mentry School, Ms. LaGrange, writes secret messages in the mashed potatoes and tries her best to get A.J. and the other students to eat healthy foods.
- Auteur:Gutman, Dan.Sommaire:
A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
- Auteur:Gutman, Dan.Sommaire:
A.J. and his classmates are convinced that new school librarian, Mrs. Roopy, has multiple personality disorder because she keeps pretending to be famous people.
- Auteur:Gutman, DanSommaire:
A.J. and the other students at Ella Mentry School brave trick-or-treating at the school secretary's house, even though it is supposedly haunted.
- Auteur:Gutman, Dan.Sommaire:
With the peculiar Mrs. Kormel at the wheel, anything could happen on the bus ride to Ella Mentry School, as A.J. and his friends find out on the day they have to go out of their way to pick up "the nude kid."
- Auteur:Gutman, Dan.Sommaire:
Mrs. Cooney, the school nurse, is so beautiful that A.J. has a crush on her--even though he suspects she might be an international spy!
- Auteur:Gutman, Dan.Sommaire:
A skateboarding principal offers unusual incentives to his students to motivate them to learn more.
- Auteur:Gutman, Dan.Sommaire:
When boring Mr. Loring retires, A.J.'s class gets a new music teacher who raps, break-dances, and thinks he has what it takes to become a famous musician.
- Auteur:Gutman, Dan.Sommaire:
Mr. Docker, a new science teacher, is a crazy inventor who blows things up, uses potatoes for power, and has A.J. and his friends wondering whether science is for nerds or is the coolest subject ever.
- Auteur:Munsch, RobertSommaire:
Mortimer will not be quiet and go to sleep. Not for his mother, or his father, or his seventeen sisters and brothers, not even for the police.
- Auteur:Scroggs, KirkSommaire:
While Grampa and Wiley try to capture the legendary Moby Fizz, the "biggest, bloated, deformed bass" in Lake Putrid, they encounter many surprises.
- Auteur:Michael BondSommaire:
Having delivered a particularly stirring speech at his recently deceased colleague's funeral, Monsieur Pamplemousse is more than a little disturbed when the coffin explodes into flames during the ceremony. Luckily his faithful...
- Auteur:Munsch, RobertSommaire:
Moira's afraid her parents might get upset if they find out she invited the whole school to her birthday party . . . so she just doesn't tell them. The big day arrives, and grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, annnnd kindergarten all come knocking...
- Auteur:Gutman, DanSommaire:
Something weird is going on! Miss Suki is a famous children's book author'and she's coming to A.J.'s school! She lives in the rainforest and writes about endangered animals. But when her pet raptor gets loose in the classroom, it's the...
- Auteur:Gutman, Dan.Sommaire:
A.J. and the other second graders do everything except play sports when they go to "fizz ed" class with their new teacher, Miss Small.