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.

Ernest enters his talented crocodile in the school pet show.

Prudence wants a pet so much that she adopts a branch, a twig, a tire, and even a shoe named Formal Footwear, but none is a suitable pet for Prudence.

First-grader Montgomery Gerald Morris enjoys an exciting year as his class acquires a pair of parakeets as pets, he loses his first tooth, and he becomes a big brother.

Do monsters make good pet owners? Marty Onster's parents seem to think so--if the pet is served for lunch! Marty really, really, really wants his own furry friend. Is the new classroom pet the friend for Marty or will his parents pull through in the end? Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Publishing Group. Grades P-4. Mr. and Mrs. Onster always dreamed of having a perfect monster child. Instead, they got Marty…...

After accidentally swallowing her grandson's pet fly, Grandma tries to retrieve it by consuming progressively larger animals.

A clever spider is lonely and longs to become a family pet.

Sly the Sleuth, also known as Sylvia, solves three mysteries for her friends and neighbors, all involving pets, through her detective agency, Sleuth for Hire.

Gertrude LaRue receives typewritten and paw-written letters from her dog Ike, entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy and come back home.

A young boy learns that moose do not always follow the rules of proper pet behavior.