After being sold to an unscrupulous pet store owner, a young mouse lives with several owners and has many adventures, before ending up with an appreciative family.

A school of ten sly piranhas gradually dwindles as they waylay and eat each other.

An illustrated, pun-filled collection of short rhymes about a variety of animals, including Gertrude the good agouti and Sabrina the carefree snake.

Traces the development in communications from prehistoric drawings and smoke signals, through electrical impluses in telephone and telegraph, to Atlantic cable and satellite.

The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth, is the school's choir leader, and their son, Frank, is home from his first year of college. Frank is in love with Natalie, a young mother who isn't quite divorced yet from her ex-husband, Richard Strout, whose family runs the local cannery. It makes Richard's blood run cold to see his wife running around with another man. And soon, an unthinkable tragedy...