In this variation on the folk song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas," two mice enjoy such Christmas gifts as "nine nuts for nibbling" and "four holly berries."
Captivated by Edward Lear's poem, a boy and girl turn into the owl and the pussycat and set sail in a pea green boat for The Land Where the Bong Tree Grows.
From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis.
A woman with a magic way of curing children's bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby.
Presents a commemorative edition of a classic, humorous cookbook that includes more than 180 easy recipes for those who fear the kitchen, covering such categories as entrees, side dishes, salads, vegetables, and desserts, along with household hints.
Seven families are helped out by Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic cures when they are faced with thought-you-saiders, tattletales, bad table manners, interrupters, heedless breakers, never-want-to-go-to-schoolers, and wadde-I-doers.