Lynn Munsinger

"...this sprightly paced tale amiably nudges kids whose direction-following skills need some honing." —Publishers Weekly

"Buddy's father had a beautiful big nose. He was a great sniffer. Buddy's mother had beautiful big teeth. She was a great chomper. Buddy had beautiful big ears. It didn't matter." When someone says squash, Buddy hears wash. Tomatoes, you say? He buys potatoes. One day—because he didn't listen—Buddy accidentally

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Sparky, a new energetic student at a sloth school, saves her lazy classmates when a wild boar from a government agency tries to shut the school down.

Angus, a very messy monster who lives with his parents in Loch Ness, learns an important lesson about picking up after himself.

Tacky is not very helpful as Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly, and Perfect plan and prepare for Halloween, turning their igloo into a haunted house and making treats, but while Tacky is finishing his costume something really frightening arrives, and only hecan chase it away.

On the third afternoon of going to the library with her brother Henry, Beatrice finally finds something she enjoys doing.

When four friends with different talents and abilities go to summer camp together, they use their strengths to make camp fun for all.

The Jelly Beans--four friends who like to do such different things as paint, play soccer, read, and dance--paint a mural on an outside wall of Mrs. Petunia Dinkley-Sneezer's candy shop that depicts them each doing what they love best.

The Jelly Beans--four friends who have different strengths and talents--work together to make their book reports a success and to promote a love of reading.

A lop-eared rabbit named Buddy finds himself in trouble with the Scruffy Varmint because he never listens.