"It's not easy to enjoy a picnic when you have unseeable interlopers to contend with! In a ... trio of stories for beginning readers, the affable Max the dog and mischievous Baby Cakes the cat encounter a scare-happy ghost who has a run-in with a mirror, the wind at its blustery best, and a teeny-tiny fairy with a wayward wand who may have met her match"--From the publisher.

"Jack has found a lost puppy! It is so cute. But can he convince his mom and dad to let him keep it?"--P. [4] of cover.

Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.

Clark the Shark is so excited about his new pet, Lulu the dogfish! He can't wait to teach Lulu tricks and feed her lots of treats. But when Lulu starts misbehaving, Clark discovers there is more to having a pet than he thought!

The bear and the bunny are friends who like to wander in the woods, look for things to eat, sing songs, and talk things over. One day, the bunny asks the bear, “Why do we not have some kind of pet?” Well, the bear is not sure what a pet is. So the bunny explains that it’s an animal that you take care of and feed, and one that loves you. But a pinecone is not the right pet for a bear and a bunny. And a caterpillar is nice, but it may not be very...

"A child wishes for a unicorn without knowing how unruly they are as pets"--

Lucy's grandmother and her poodle Fluffy arrive for a visit, and Fluffy immediately begins building a doomsday machine that will hypnotize humans and turn them into agents of chaos--can Ember work with the other pets to outsmart this evil genius?

Princess Bella prepares to show off her new unicorn, Glimmer, to the people of the Crystal Kingdom, but when Glimmer disappears before Bella can go for her first ride, she and her friends must search the entire kingdom, even the Dark Forest.

Dumpling the hamster came to a dusty end inside a vacuum cleaner. He suspects that his owner Oliver's parents never admitted to their son that they were to blame for Dumpling's demise. Now the hamster needs Joe's help to reveal the truth - but there's a furry surprise awaiting them at Oliver's house.