Tired of always being jerked and jolted along the tracks in last place, Katy Caboose devises a clever plan for solving all of her travel woes.

Cyrus, a shy and friendly serpent, finally realizes his ambition by heroically helping some voyagers through a storm and foiling some dastardly pirates.

After a mean, selfish crab is rescued by a boy, the crab searches for a way to repay the kindness.

The Wump World is an unspoiled place until huge monsters bring hordes of tiny creatures from the planet Pollutus.

Describes in rhyme a variety of fantastical creatures such as the blue-snouted Twumps, the pie-faced Pazeeks, and the fancy Fandangos.

Five talented lions suffer from stage fright and are unable to perform their circus act. A new lion-tamer is hired.

Wishing to be a bird, a little boy learns that there are benefits and drawbacks to every condition and that being a little boy may be the best of all.

When Prewitt's shamefully scraggly tail develops the appearance of a scary greeneyed monster, the other peacocks decide it has to go.

A little dragon gets lost from his family and is found by a farmer boy. In the end the king hires the dragon to participate in the Grand Spring Festival.

When the pinkish, purplish, bluish egg hatches, out comes a griffin named Ezekiel. The old owl insists that he is not real and the other birds finds him too ferocious-looking. But in spite of his eagle beak and lion body, Zeke shows that he had s heart of gold and is as meek as the turtledove who hatched him. In rhymed verse.