Lane Smith

Princess Hyacinth is bored and unhappy sitting in her palace every day because, unless she is weighed down by specially-made clothes, she will float away, but her days are made brighter when kite-flying Boy stops to say hello.

"A giraffe struggles to feel comfortable with his neck"--

A poem for each letter of the alphabet introduces a different, spooky aspect of Halloween.

The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

When Lulu's parents go on vacation, the formidable Ms. Sonia Sofia Solinsky comes to babysit and Lulu behaves as badly as possible to get her to leave until Ms. Solinsky reveals her secret.

A transmission received from outer space in a combination of different Earth languages tells of an alien schoolboy's fantastic excuse for being late to school again.

The Toad brothers are wreaking havoc in Drywater Gulch when a boy with no experience but immense knowledge of dinosaurs rides into town on his tortoise and declares himself the new sheriff.

A little boy sits in the corner of his classroom dreaming about his big plans for his future.

Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.

Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, Vincent Gambini is the cousin of one of them and he is a lawyer. Vinny is a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try and has never been in court. When cousin Vinny arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to handle his first case, it's a real shock - for both Vinny and the Deep South.