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A down-to-earth version of a heavenly tale.Jack and the Manger retells the story of Jesus's birth as if it were a Newfoundland folktale.

Jason's dad falls asleep everywhere … except in his own bed.

When Angela's father gets lost at the airport, she looks for him everywhere, even inside an airplane.

Julie thinks her new neighbors must be very scary because all the stuff being moved into their house is enormous. Then she meets David and finds out that he's just a normal, regular boy.

Andrew has decided he never needs to go pee ever again, but his parents aren't too sure. Only one minute into the drive to his grandparents' house, Andrew changes his mind.

"Last stop! Everybody out!" Jonathan is trying not to make a mess, but someone has put a subway station in his apartment. So Jonathan goes to City Hall to fix the computer.

Mortimer will not be quiet and go to sleep. Not for his mother, or his father, or his seventeen sisters and brothers, not even for the police.

When Jule Ann goes outside in her brand-new clothes, a mud puddle jumps on her and gets her completely dirty. The mud gets in her ears, eyes, and even her mouth.

What in the world is Robin going to do with the baby she finds in her sandbox? 'Murmel, murmel, murmel,' is all Robin hears coming from a hole in her sandbox.

Another laugh-out-loud book from the author of The Paper Bag Princess!

Ben wants to take something really neat to school for show and tell. What could be neater than his new baby sister? But his sister doesn't want to co-operate. She cries in his backpack.

'Something good' is exactly what Tyya, Andrew and Julie want to put into their shopping cart. Tyya's dad won't buy anything good at the store—no ice cream, no candy, no cookies.

None of the kids in her class wear a ponytail, so Stephanie decides she must have one. The loud, unanimous comment from her classmates is: 'Ugly, ugly, very ugly.

Shelley has to pick up the socks she's left all over her room. But when she opens her sock drawer, a tiny troublemaking boy appears.

Jule Ann pounds on the bottom of a cookie jar and a small, dark lump bounces out.