Lynn Rowe Reed

Follows Fred as he speeds to a fire, performs a rescue, and makes a new friend.

When substitute principal Mr. Greystone prohibits colors at Hughes Elementary School, it takes a visit from illustrator Maurice Coleur to set things right. Includes information about primary, secondary, and tertiary colors and the color wheel.

A boy builds a spaceship and promises the first ride to everyone who helps him, but when blast off time comes, he decides to take his best friend instead.

"A bear awakens from hibernation and finds himself very hungry and in search of something to eat starting with the letter b"--

Benny the bull shark is a big bully. Every day he makes the other sea creatures tremble and shake with his bossy ways. Benny even tries to bully his way to friendship-- but no one want to be friends with a bully! Then Janice the jellyfish tells Benny about Friend School, where he can learn the rules of friendship. He decides to try it out. Friend School is hard than it looks, though, especially for a bully like him! Will Benny finally learn what it...

When all the punctuation marks in Mr. Wright's class decide to take a vacation, the students discover just how difficult life can be without them.

When Mr. Wright's students express a dislike for silent letters, the offended letters decide to teach them a lesson by going on strike.

When Grizzorka the Witch snatches Tabithia to be her new Halloween cat, Grandmother Katt dons a pumpkin helmet and declares war, with the help of Spider, Frog, and Bat.

Rhyming text describes the many sounds of the city.

When the children in Mr. Wright's class have a field day, nouns and verbs in the classroom make their own fun.