David LaRochelle

A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.

What happens when the book gets it wrong? Max is not a cat-- Max is a dog! But much to his dismay, this book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is a dog? In a trio of stories for beginning readers, author David LaRochelle introduces the excitable Max, who lets the book know in irresistibly emphatic dialogue that the text is not to his liking. Illustrator Mike Wohnoutka hilariously depicts the pup's...

A young boy enlists the help of a dragon to persuade his mother to let him have a dog as a pet.

"It's not easy to enjoy a picnic when you have unseeable interlopers to contend with! In a new 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"--

A monster and son fill their day with rough and rowdy fun.

A young girl must face her least favorite food when a mean gang of green beans kidnaps her parents.

When best friends Kexie and Lamar are abducted by an extraterrestrial, they will have to use their math skills to escape the alien planet and return home.

A young child and his mother help an old woman seeking a bit of warmth on Christmas Eve, only to find out later that she was a very special guest.

Mr. Brown hires Miss Button to help out in his bookstore. Realizing the two are "smitten" with one another, Cobweb, the cat and the bookstore's ghost devise a plan to bring the two together.