Marylin Hafner

While her mother is sick in bed, Abby tries to take care of her younger brother and the house when her father has to go out for a while.

A re-illustrated collection of lighthearted Valentine poems includes such works as "I Made My Dog a Valentine" and "I Love You More Than Applesauce."

Clyde, the rabbit, is ready to start school, but after talking with his brother, he is worried about what will happen at lunchtime.

Raymond does not want to start going to school, but once there he experiences the excitement of giving book reports, learning about dinosaurs and whales, taking part in a play, and writing a publisher about a mistake he finds in a reference book.

Best friends Mimi and Mandy set up a haunted house as part of a game and end up scaring themselves.

When Lucille is upset that she can not go camping with her father and older siblings, she and her mother decide to go camping inside the house.

Arlo and Robby, finding themselves the victims of a neighborhood bully, work out a red-hot scheme for discouraging him.

Lucille has so much trouble getting her snowsuit on that she is almost too tired to go outside and join her brother and sister playing in the snow.

Because her good deeds are not noticed, a small witch steals every trick-or-treat bag in town on Halloween.

Feeling inept in the team sports scheduled for his school's Gymboree, Clyde the rabbit develops his own event, a freestyle tumbling routine with a dazzling move called the "twirly burly."