James Marshall

Five brief episodes reveal the ups and downs of a great friendship.

Relates three stories in the friendship of two hippopotamuses.

At the end of summer Spud and Joe eagerly return to school for more practical jokes, unaware that Assistant Principal Lamar J. Spurgle is out of retirement and awaiting them.

Spud and Joe are determined to catch the mysterious prankster who keeps getting them into trouble when they spend their summer at Camp Custer with Mary Frances Hooley and Lamar J. Spurgle.

In eight animals stories the reader meets a rat family that vacations at a dude ranch, a pig who takes lessons in table manners, a mouse who keeps house for a tomcat, and a buzzard who leaves his money to the Society for Stray Cats--or does he?

In The big scare, George scares Martha one day and she vows revenge. But as George braces himself for the big scare, where is Martha? In The amusement park, George and Martha are having a wonderful time at the park until they enter the Tunnel of Love!

Spud and Joe are forced by their mothers to take ballroom dancing lessons and scheme to win the final class contest.

Despite all attempts to reassure him, Portly McSwine frets about the National Snout Day celebration he has planned.