There's a new gym teacher at school and a little boy imagines him to be a real monster until he sees him in person and realizes he is a regular, likeable person.

While preparing for a class trip to the school library, a young boy recalls all the horrible things he has heard about the librarian and her policies.

A young boy imagines the worst about his new bus driver.

A boy contemplates all the horrible stories he has heard about the music teacher, Miss LaNote, and the ordeals she forces her students to endure.

On the first day of a new school year Mrs. Green's imagination runs wild as she thinks of all the horrible things she's heard about her new class, including that they've sent their previous three teachers into early retirement.

This comical picture book series expores a youngster's fearful anticipation of the new and unknown. Hilariously illustarted, these playfully frightful adventures culminate in tremendous relief when our wary young hero's fears are untimately unfounded.