Barney Saltzberg

"Two mice--one big and one small--have a terrible problem. Little Mouse is looking for a story--they're in a book, after all!--and Big Mouse has to admit the truth. The story is gone. And (gasp!) he ate it. That is not okay with Little Mouse, who is all ready to hear a story and will settle for nothing less."--Provided by publisher.

Stanley is excited about bringing the class pet, a bird, home for the weekend, but when his friend Larry urges him to open the cage and let Figgy out to fly, it is hard to know who is to blame for the ensuing disaster.

Each of twenty-six poems describes the antics and habits of a zany classroom pet whose name begins with a different letter of the alphabet.

Stories include: Stick and Stone; Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners; Shrinking Violet; and Crazy Hair Day.