Poems
The following poems are included in the collection:
- Advice
- Allison Beals and Her 25 Eels.
- Alphabalance
- Bad Cold
- Battle in the Sky
- Best Mask?-A kid wins first prize at a scary mask contest even though he isn't wearing one.
- Big Eating Contest
- Bituminous?
- Blood-Curdling Story-Someone describes a story that's really scary, even though he really doesn't tell it.
- Body Language
- Camp Wonderful
- Carrots
- Castle
- A Cat, a Kid, and a Mom
- Cat Jacks
- Cereal
- Christmas Dog
- Clean Gene
- Crazy Dream
- Crystal ball
- Danny O'Dare-A girl meets a dancing bear.
- Description
- Diving Board
- Don the Dragon's Birthday-How to celebrate a creature's birthday.
- Falling up-
- Foot Repair-A boy gets his feet repaired when going barefoot so much.
- Forgetful Paul Revere-A patriot forgets what he said.
- Former Foreman's Story
- Furniture Bash-Some furniture gets destroyed when they beat up each other.
- Gardener
- Glub-Glub
- Golden Goose
- Hand Holding
- Hard to Please
- Haunted
- Headless Town-A man tries to sell hats in a town that has people with no heads.
- Headphone Harold
- Help!
- Hi-Monster
- Human Balloon-A man turns into a balloon after getting so bloated when he drinks too much soda.
- Hungry Kid Island
- Hypnotized
- Ice Cream Stop
- Imagining
- In the Land of...
- James
- Kanga Ruby
- Keepin' Count
- Keep-Out House
- Little Hoarse-A man has a sore throat, but some kids hear wrong in what he says.
- Little Pig's Treat
- Long-Leg Lou and Short-Leg Sue
- Long Scarf
- Lyin' Larry
- Mari-Lou's Ride
- Medusa-Medusa tries to fix her snake hair, but her snakes keep disagreeing on what she should do with them.
- Mirror, Mirror
- Mister Moody
- Molly's Folly
- Morgan's Curse
- Mummy
- Music Lesson
- My Nose Garden
- My Robot-A robot makes its owner be its servant.
- My Sneaky Cousin
- The Nap Taker
- Needles and Pins
- New World
- No
- No Grown-Ups
- No Thank You
- Noise Day-Some children decide to create a holiday where they can make a lot of noise.
- Nope
- Obedient
- Ooh!-A kid goes to an actual petting zoo, but when he pets a baby tiger, his fingers get bit off.
- One Out of Sixteen
- People Zoo-A boy get captured and locked up in a zoo where animals can see him instead of him watching the animals.
- Pinocchio
- Plugging In
- Poison-Tester
- Porky
- Quality Time
- Reachin' Richard
- Red Flowers for You
- Remote-a-Dad
- Rotten Convention
- Runners
- Sack Race
- Safe?
- Scale
- Screamin' Millie-A girl screams so loud that it ruins her face.
- Settin' Around
- Shanna in the Sauna-A girl tries to get in a sauna when it has too many animals in it.
- Sharing
- Shoe Talk-A kid talks to a shoe.
- Short Kid
- Show Fish
- Sidewalking
- Smile Makers
- Snowball
- Somethin' New
- Sorry I Spilled It
- Spoiled Brat
- Stone Airplane
- Stork Story
- Strange Restaurant
- Stupid Pencil Maker
- Sun Hat
- Sybil the Magician's Last Show
- Tattooin' Ruth-A man gets a suit tattoo when he thinks he cannot stand real clothes.
- Tell Me
- The Bear, the Fire, and the Snow
- The Deadly Eye
- The Gnome, the Gnat, and the Gnu
- The Monkey
- The Tongue Sticker-Outer
- The Toy Eater
- The Voice
- They Say I Have...
- Three O'Clock
- Three Stings
- Turkey?-A man mistakenly eats a drumming drumstick instead of a turkey drumstick.
- Unfair
- Use for a Mouse
- Voice
- Warmhearted
- Wastebasket Brother
- Weavers
- Web-Foot Woe
- Weird-Bird
- We're Out of Paint, So...
- When I Was Your Age
- Why Is It?
- Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
- Writer Waiting
- Yuck
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