Two boys discover that their mother loves them equally but in different ways

Oliver likes finding things out, so when his mother cannot explain the gurgling in the bathtub he builds a submarine, goes down the drain, and meets a group of vacationing penguins

Little critter and his mother take a trip to the city exploring the department stores and museums

A young boy's question about what his mother would do if he didn't put his plate in the sink turns into an imaginative adventure for both of them.

This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know this: there's a Merry, a Larry, a missing tooth, and a teachers' strike that is crippling Timmy Failure s academic future. Worst of all, Timmy is banned from detective work. It's a conspiracy of buffoons. He recorded everything in his private notebook, but then the manuscript was stolen. If this book gets out, he will be grounded for life. Or maybe longer. And will Timmy's...

Cameron is used to moving at a moment's notice because he and his mother are always running away from his supposedly violent father, but he is disturbed by their latest refuge, a creepy, deserted farmhouse, haunted by bloodthirsty dogs--and when he sees a boy hiding in the barn, and finds an old picture of the same boy, he starts wondering about the possibility of human ghosts.

A young boy isn't ready to go home when his mother calls so he pretends he is a lion, a dinosaur, a monster, a spaceship heading for Mars, and anyone or anything but Bobby

Persistent young Edward has many questions for his sleepy mother, many of which are answered, "Because it's night time."

A five-year-old boy, ready and eager on his first day at "the big kids' school," must calm his very worried mother