Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.

When Henry adopts Ribsy, a dog of no particular breed, humorous adventures follow.

Ramona's entry into kindergarten becomes a big event for all concerned when she makes her presence known.

When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.

When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.

When their boy, Stewart, gets involved in a school play and begins to act in an evil manner, Sassy and Waldo fear he will remain evil forever.

A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.

"Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--

From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English countryside or marveling over a disembodied human arm in a taxidermist's shop, Sedaris takes us on side-splitting adventures that...

The happy home life of Socks, the cat, is disrupted by the addition of a new baby to the household.