Bertie's sister has chickenpox and Bertie thinks that if he can catch it he will not have to go to school and admit he did not do his homework--and that is just the first problem that Bertie faces in this trio of stories.

Because she does exactly as she is told, Amelia Bedelia is fired from one job after another.

After falling through the refrigerator into the Land of Fake Believe, Princess meets a girl named Moldylocks who takes her to the home of the Three Beards for chili--but when the Beards capture her friend, Princess must come up with a plan to save her.

Aaron the Alligator loves to play sports - but isn't quite an all-star athlete. --

Amelia Bedelia follows to the letter the list of instructions for looking after the Lanes' baby.

Chicken dreams about a treasure and sets off on a dangerous journey to find it.

A lonely, elderly woman adopts a stray animal that she thinks is a dog but is actually an elephant.

Sy Kravitz, a Brooklyn fruit seller, explains why becoming invisible should never happen to you.

"Icky Ricky is up to his eyeballs in trouble and in ick--giving a funeral for a pizza, dealing with a one-eyed squirrel, and dressing up as Bigfoot"--

Nick and Maxine have a new babysitter--the eccentric Mrs. Noodlekugel who lives in the funny little house behind their drab high-rise apartment building along with her feline butler, Mr. Fuzzface, and three myopic mice.