A boy tells all the reasons a small, fire-breathing dragon would make an excellent pet, and the ways he would take proper care of it if he had one.

Mildred Hubble, an apprentice witch with a reputation for being the worst student at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, smuggles her cat Tabby on a class trip to the seaside with unexpected results.

When Little Critter discovers a dog in the bushes, he takes it home and attempts to take care of it until its owner can be found.

While panning for gold with his Pa, Jake adopts a pig that he names Dog.

Sam Waters is desperate to have a pet. But his parents say that first, Sam must prove he's responsible. So he takes an after-school job in a pet store called Little Shop of Hamsters. To his horror, Sam soon finds that cute, little hamsters can become very uncute monsters. Suddenly, Sam isn't fighting for a pet--he's fighting to survive!

Explains the different responsibilities of caring for a pet fish.

It's not easy to enjoy a picnic when you have unseeable interlopers to contend with! In a new trio of stories for beginning readers, the affable Max the dog and mischievous Baby Cakes the cat encounter a scare-happy ghost who has a run-in with a mirror, the wind at its blustery best, and a teeny-tiny fairy with a wayward wand who may have met her match. -- From the publisher.

"A dog with a ball is one of the most relentlessly hopeful creatures on Earth. After his best little-girl pal leaves for school, this dog hits up yoga mom, baby, and even the angry cat for a quick throw. No luck. Forced to go solo, the dog begins a hilarious one-sided game of fetch until naptime's wild, ball-centric dream sequence. The pictures speak a thousand words in this comic book-style ode to canine monomania. Ball? Ball"--Www.barnesandnoble.com....

A charming London neighborhood is home to Roger and Anita, whose beloved dalmatians Pongo and Perdita have become the proud parents of 15 puppies. But when Cruella DeVille and her henchmen appear, the pups soon disappear, along with every other Dalmatian puppy in town.