Robert N Munsch

Samuel wakes up really hungry and, unable to get enough to eat at home, he goes to a pie eating contest where he finally gets his fill.

Julie discovers that her new friends's father is a giant.

Ben brings an unusual show-and-tell to school, his baby sister!

Rene asks her father and mother to build her a playhouse, a play barn, a play cow, and more, until finally her parents decide that they'd like to have a play Rene.

After her grandfather's funeral, Sarah wakes her father in the middle of the night so they can go to the lighthouse her grandfather loved and remember other night-time visits there.

"When Taylor was a baby, her grandma gave her a blanket. Now she is six and she still takes that blanket everywhere -- until her brother borrows it to mop up a mess. When he tries to get the stain out, it only gets worse . . . and worse, and worse, with each additional attempt to clean it. Finally her panicked brother hides the remains in the couch cushions and hopes that Taylor will never find it. But she does . . . and she is not happy at all, until...

A five-year-old girl gets lost at the airport and takes off in an airplane.