Mike Thaler

There's a new gym teacher at school and a little boy imagines him to be a real monster until he sees him in person and realizes he is a regular, likeable person.

A boy contemplates all the horrible stories he has heard about the music teacher, Miss LaNote, and the ordeals she forces her students to endure.

After relating all of the horrible things the school custodian, Fester Smudge, is known to have done, a student whose locker won't open needs Mr. Smudge's help.

The Black Lagoon kids have various adventures on their first class trip.

On the third day of school, a young boy is sent to the principal's office and thinks about all the horrifying rumors he has heard about her.

It's Dental Heath Month, and some strange dentist is going to be poking his head into the mouths of all the students. Hubie has heard all kinds of wild things about dentists. Some say they have four hands and two heads, and that they put crazy things like bridges and crowns in people's mouths. How on earth can you fit a bridge in someone's mouth? When it's Hubie's turn to show off his choppers, he's obviously very nervous. What on earth will the dentist...

On the first day of a new school year Mrs. Green's imagination runs wild as she thinks of all the horrible things she's heard about her new class, including that they've sent their previous three teachers into early retirement.

This comical picture book series expores a youngster's fearful anticipation of the new and unknown. Hilariously illustarted, these playfully frightful adventures culminate in tremendous relief when our wary young hero's fears are untimately unfounded.

Hubie heard there's a new kid in school and he's rumored to be a mean bully, who supposedly beat up the football team and ate his teacher's pet at his last school!

Hubie just feels sick because baseball fever is catching everyone. The only hit he had last year was when he got hit in the head by a ball. Will he make the big hit this year and knock the ball out of the park?