Daniel Manus Pinkwater

Nick and Maxine accompany their babysitter Mrs. Noodlekugel and her cat, Mr. Fuzzface, on a trip into the city to get her four mice fitted for eyeglasses. While there, the mice run off and Mr. Fuzzface makes a surprising acquaintance.

When a seagull drops a can of orange paint on his neat house, Mr. Plumbean gets an idea that affects his entire neighborhood.

Siblings Nick and Maxine are thrilled to stay with Mrs. Noodlekugel and her husband, seafaring Captain Noodlekugel, while their parents are on an overnight trip, but they get more than they bargained for when Captain Noodlekugel's pet bear goes missing and Nick and Maxine have to find it.

A bear continues to paint what he likes despite criticism from two passing gentlemen.

After he eats an eighth of a ton of ice cream at Cohen's Cones, Larry the polar bear happily becomes the spokesbear for the Iceberg Ice-Cream Company under the slogan, "I do not feel sick."

On a rainy morning, Mr. and Mrs. Submarine invite a cat, dog, coyote, wildebeest, Ludwig van Beethoven, the United States Marine Band, and others into their home to share their breakfast of tea and corn muffins.

Yetta, the beautiful chicken, breaks free from the truck that is carrying her to market. She quickly realizes the big city is nothing like the chicken farm. She is scared and confused until she meets and saves the life of a little, green parrot.

Two muffin-loving polar bears make a yearly attempt to use stealth and subterfuge to get muffins at the Yellowtooth Blueberry Muffin Festival.

Inspired by a movie plot, Morty and Ray paint pictures of each other and then do mean things at school to see if their portraits will become ugly.

Irving and Muktuk, two muffin-eating polar bears from the frozen north, have some trouble fitting into life at the zoo in Bayone, New Jersey.