James Stevenson

Elwyn, Santa's oldest elf, and Blitzen, a retired reindeer, help Santa out for one last Christmas.

Readers are requested not to laugh or do anything to influence the behavior of various animal characters in this book.

The animals of Mud Flat celebrate the coming of spring in their own ways.

Tossed in garbage cans after they are replaced by new toys at Christmas, a teddy bear and a doll are befriended by a stray dog.

Simsbury is sitting under his favorite tree when a red chair and an accordion pass by, prompting him to get up and take a look at the Mud Flat Yard Sale.

More adventures at school and at home with Jake, a first-grader, and his older sister Abigail, known to each other as the Pain and the Great One.

Humorous poems about such strange creatures and people as Baloney Belly Billy and the Gloopy Gloopers.

(1st work) A little mouse thinks her name, Chrysanthemum, is perfect until she starts school and all the kids make fun of her. (2nd work) Monty, a dependable alligator taxi for three school children decides he needs a vacation. (3rd work) Jimmy brings along his pet boa constrictor on a class trip to the farm.