Lynn Munsinger

The humor is just absurd enough to make the picture-book set howl along with Hippo and Fluffy." –New York Times Book Review

Fluffy the porcupine is unhappy with his name: "So he decided to become fluffier." He climbs a tree and pretends to be a cloud! He even poses as a pillow. (His mother is not pleased when she sits on him.) When Fluffy meets a rhinoceros named Hippo, it puts his plight in perspective...and he makes a friend.

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Read one way, this book describes all the wonderful things aunts do, and when turned over, it depicts why uncles are special.

Mothers and fathers participating in everyday activities show their love for their children in very similar ways.

While awaiting a visit from the Emperor, a group of penguins fail to recognize their friend Tacky in the Emperor's clothes.

Takcy the penguin and his friends perform a play for the little penguins in Mrs. Beakly's class, but with Tacky in the lead role, things do not go exactly as planned.

Tacky and his fellow penguins on Team Nice Icy Land train hard for the Winter Games, but Tacky's antics make their chances of winning a medal seem slim.

It looks like trouble when Fragility, a hippopotamus whose feelings are easily hurt, meets Rudy, a rude elephant, on the soccer field.

A little black puppy acquires a boy, teaches him some tricks, and finds him when he is lost.

Pinkerton the pig always manages to be first until he rushes for a sandwich and it turns out to be not the edible kind.

Tacky is not very helpful as Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly, and Perfect plan and prepare for Halloween, turning their igloo into a haunted house and making treats, but while Tacky is finishing his costume something really frightening arrives, and only hecan chase it away.