Florence Parry Heide

The Spotlight Club detectives are involved in a new case concerning a mysterious man and an iron dog.

All the elephant's friends give him advice, but none can solve his problem until the opossum announces friends are to help, not just to give advice.

Relates the misadventures of Marigold, a monkey, as she shops with her mother for a coat, makes a hobby of "bugging" her best friend, Maxine the hippo, and imaginatively copes with finding the right outfit for the first day of school.

Ishaq, the son of the chief translator to the Caliph of ancient Baghdad, travels the world in search of precious books and manuscripts and brings them back to the great library known as the House of Wisdom.

The three Spotlight Club members track down a pickpocket loose in the zoo.

Eddie tries to distract Alice from watching TV but even a monster can't get her away from the television set.

Collects the stories of Treehorn, a boy to whom very strange things keep happening which adults, from his parents to the meter reader, do not seem to think are noteworthy.