A lion starts visiting the local library but runs into trouble as he tries to both obey the rules and help his librarian friend. Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about rules in the library. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a lion comes to the library one day, no one is sure what to do. There aren't any rules about lions in the library. And, as it turns out, this lion seems very well suited to library visiting....

Ariel learns a valuable lesson about the imporatnace of following the reuld.

Newbery honor book: 1987.

Gertrude LaRue receives typewritten and paw-written letters from her dog Ike, entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy and come back home.

The rules keep getting in the way of Noodle's fun. There are so many rules -- too many rules! And Noodle struggles because he doesn't think many of them actually apply to HIM. Will Noodle's mother and teacher convince him that rules are meant to help, not harm, him?--Publisher.

When Jason, an Attention Deficit Disorder child, learns that his parents are going to celebrate Valentine's Day by a weekend away, he plans to hoodwink his grandmother into letting him stay up late, and sneak some of his mother's valentine chocolates.

On her way to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother, Elisabeth encounters a sly wolf.