Marc Brown

Arthur is looking forward to having his friend the Brain spend an entire weekend at his house, but then the Brain shows up and starts acting a little too much like the perfect family member.

After her friends help her get the lead in the third grade play, Francine becomes so intent on making the play perfect that she almost ruins it.

Illustrations and rhyming text explore the fun and mayhem that could ensue if elephants, kangaroos, bats, and more were to come inside a little boy's house.

A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.