Picture Book

Contains all three books about Alexander in one volume: Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day -- Alexander, who used to be rich last Sunday -- Alexander, who's not (Do you hear me? I mean it!) going to move.

Mary McScary loves to scare people, but nothing she thinks up seems to bother her cousin, Harry McScary--but Mary will not give up trying.

A newly hatched, happily singing chick is eaten by a fox, who then starts singing before being eaten by a wolf, and so begins a chain of eating and singing for a series of animals.

When Little Red Chicken comes home excited about what she learned in school, she explains to Papa that every story has "an elephant of surprise."

Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.

In a moment of fright Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again.

Zookeeper Amos McGee always makes time to visit his friends who live at the zoo until the day he stays home because he is sick.

A peddler who sells caps by balancing them all on his head is invited to do an act in the circus.

Distressed because sixteen monkeys are copying his every move, Pezzo the peddler seeks the advice of his friend Essie, who recommends patience.

A band of mischievous monkeys steals every one of a peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree.