Very strange noises that keep awakening the Wimbledon family one night have an even stranger source.

Hally, the Tosis family dog, has such bad breath that Mr. and Mrs. Tosis plan to give her away, until she proves to be an invaluable watchdog.

A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.

Contemporary fables with tongue-in-cheek morals address such topics as homework, curfews, and television commercials.

In 1896 the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, is almost twelve years old and more mischievous than ever in his practical jokes and schemes against everyone in town.

Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different, but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull, she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It will take superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves, and Matilda may be just the one to do it!

Although he is a very serious bear, Benjamin Bear has a funny way of doing things, like drying dishes on a rabbit's back or sharing his sweater without taking it off.

Amelis Bedelia finds a stray kitten and tries, in her literal-minded way, to take good care of it.

Because she does exactly as she is told, Amelia Bedelia is fired from one job after another.

In this version of the classic fairy tale "Snow White, " pop stardom is the sought-after prize, and seven singing aliens are Snow White's back-up singers.