Joe Kulka

As a distant howl echoes through the forest, animals quickly stop what they're doing and run for home. Look out—Wolf's coming! As the shadowy figure gets closer and closer and the day draws to a close, the animals shut the door, pull the shades, and turn out the lights. Soon the wolf's glowing eyes appear at the window and the front door opens . . . But things are not as they seem in this suspenseful, clever story, and it's the reader who's in for...

Ernest enters his talented crocodile in the school pet show.

The worst part of vacation is coming home. There's laundry to do, mail to pick up, and photos to develop. It's such a hassle. So when the dinosaurs return from their vacation (they're not really extinct, you see), just imagine what they have to go through! Much has changed in the millions of years since they left on a spaceship cruise. Can Earth handle their return?

A gingerbread man, baked by a little old lady for her husband, bursts from the oven ready to save the world, beginning with trying to rescue some brownies from a macaroon gone mad.

"A young penguin is sure he will win the talent contest. He does the most amazing things! He has them laughing! He has them gasping! No one could do better! On one, that is, except maybe for shy little Pam."--Back cover.