Dick Gackenbach

After transforming a football into a toaster and a cat into a canary, Herbert's new invention creates unexpected problems by changing Herbert into his dog and his dog into Herbert.

Two stories of Hattie Rabbit. 1.Hattie realizes if you get every- thing you wish for, it could be a problem. 2.Hattie learns the value of friendship.

Hattie Rabbit tries to get a part in Tom's Easter play. Play script is included.

A boy's drawings on the wall of a magical monster sets off a series of adventures for the two of them, until his mother wants the wall cleaned off.

Annie goes to a costume party dressed as a potato, but something is not quite right with her costume. Then a Mud Monster helps her out with her problem.

Alice tells her mother about her special room, where she can play with her cat who died, enjoy the warm beach in January, go sledding on a hot summer day, and do anything she has already done in the past.

A child imagines how things will be when he is eight, like his big brother.

Mad at the wind for blowing everything away, Jack tries a succession of ways to stop it.

Five stories relate the adventures and misadventures of Adam Joshua as he contends with the first day of school, pretending to be sick, stealing a library book, making the scariest Halloween costume, and being upstaged at show-and-tell time.