A collection of five children's stories by Robert Munsch, including short descriptions of how each one originated.

"When Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, decide to adopt a child from a distant orphanage, they don't get quite what they bargained for. The child who awaits them at the tiny Bright River train station is not the strapping young boy they'd imagined--someone to help Matthew work the fields of their small farm--but rather a freckle-faced, redheaded girl named Anne (with an e, if you please). Matthew and Marilla may not be sure about Anne, but...

When Aaron hurts his hair's feelings by saying he hates it, his hair runs away and jumps onto other people and into trouble.

A collection of short stories which capture a variety of experiences and feelings of young women growing up in Nova Scotia.

A guilt-ridden prince with a foot fetish seeking his glass-slippered dance partner and a beauty contest winner as Snow White's murderous stepmother are featured in two of the original "grim" plots in this young adult collection loosely based on eight traditional fairy tales.

A collection of Christmas and New Year's tales in addition to chapters about Christmas taken from the Anne books, all of which present the spirit of giving.

Offers young readers four stories about friendship, including "Franklin Has a Sleepover, " "Franklin's Bad Day, " "Franklin's New Friend, " and "Franklin's Secret Club."

In southwestern Saskatchewan, dinosaur-crazy Daniel is thrilled to find an exciting fossil in his secret hideout but soon turns his attention to why his strange neighbor is trying to scare him away.