When it comes to pets, a goldfish isn’t much better than a houseplant. At least that’s what Gryphon thought at first – until he put his new goldfish on his bedside table and tried to go to sleep!
Why on earth do you need such an enormous blanket?” one of Ursula’s friends asked.
“Oh, it’s not for me,” said Ursula. “It’s for the baby.”
“The baby?” said the other villagers. “What kind of baby needs a blanket that size?”
At that very moment there was a sound like thunder, and the ground began to shake.
Tristan’s sister and brother are bigger, stronger and faster than he is. But sometimes it’s good to be small – even for a giant!
Nothing can wake Grandad McAlister from his long winter nap – not a rooster, not a bouncing grandchild, not even a mariachi band!
One morning as an old woman was going to fetch her water, she noticed a little tree growing by the side of the path. That poor little tree! It was more like a twig standing upright in the ground, with a few skinny branches and a handful of withered leaves.
Great Aunt Ruby had a very unusual suitcase. Quinn put her hands on one latch, and Sam put his hand on the other . . . and then – with a snap and a squeal, with a squeak and a sproing, with a shiver and a shimmy and a shake – that suitcase began to unfold itself!
“Trees can’t walk,” the big trees told the little maple. “It’s impossible!”
But the little maple was absolutely determined to see the world beyond the forest. And if that meant pulling its roots from the ground and becoming the very first tree to walk – well, so be it.
Teeny, tiny Timbo was so tiny, that he spent the first year of his life in an empty goldfish bowl. It wasn’t so bad. He had a teeny, tiny crib from his sister’s dollhouse, and a teeny, tiny rug to go on the floor, and he even had his own teeny, tiny teddy bear.
Conor held on tight as the ship rose through the night sky, higher than the tallest trees, higher than the highest mountains. The Earth got smaller and smaller beneath them, until it was no bigger than a blue-green marble. Past the moon they went, past Mars, and Jupiter, and Saturn, too.