"Welcome to Fruitdale! Ripe with humor and bursting with rhyme, these five short stories and five mini-comics will have newly independent readers wiggling, giggling, and going bananas for Peach and Plum" --Cover page [4].

"The votes are in and the new mayor is…A DOG?! This dog will do more than shake paws. Mayor Good Boy is here to help Greenwood become a town filled with kindness, starting with fetching help for the local zoo. With foes around every corner trying to put a stop to Mayor Good Boy’s campaign of fun, are there cheese snacks and belly rubs in his future? Or will the whole town suddenly have a flea problem?" --publisher's website

"Otto is having a very palindramatic day. His pet, Pip, has gone missing, and his search for the dog leads him deeper and deeper into a strange and perplexing world–full of talking owls, stacks of cats, storms and mazes, boats and trains and automobiles . . . oh my! Everything seems to be the same backward and forward, and Pip isn’t sure he’ll ever find his way home to Mom and Pop. But you, reader, will enjoy his Oz-like journey thoroughly."--publisher's...

"In the latest installment of the Hildafolk series, Hilda is thrust into a new life in the bustling city of Trolberg, far from the magic and wonder of her birthplace in the Fjords. Lamenting the loss of her enchanting, wooded surroundings, Hilda wonders if she'll ever recapture the same excitement in this strange new concrete forest. Hilda is set for a thunderbolt of surprise as she discovers that her new city is not quite as plain as it seems and...

"Yasmina isn't like the other kids in her city. She might be an oddball, but no one can deny that Yasmina has a flair for food. All she needs to whip up a gourmet meal is a recipe from her cookbook and fresh vegetables from the community garden. But everything changes when the garden is bulldozed and replaced with a strange new crop of potatoes. Her neighbors can't get enough of these spuds! And after just one bite their behavior changes--they slobber,...

"Riverdale has grown to host a cast of characters over the past 80 years, and Archie's Pals 'n' Gals is finally collected to showcase the zany adventures of everyone in town! Orginally running from 1952 all the way into the '90s....[T]his chronological collection highlights some of the funniest stories in the series!" --back cover

"Elephant and The Projector [are] linked graphic novels that guide the reader (and a bespectacled Everyman) through landscapes built out of both the everyday and the nightmarish. Jam-packed superhighways, plummeting horses, vast urban wastelands, colossal businessmen, demented cartoon animals, and interstellar oranges are just a small part of Vaughn-James’s prophetic vision of society’s turn away from the natural world to the artificial." --publisher's...

"Callie and Martina are two mice with almost nothing in common. Callie is a punk rock star in the big city who could use a little peach and quiet. Martina is a singing farm mouse with dreams of making it in the big city. When they both show up at the Battle of the Bands, Callie and Martina get a taste of what the other has to offer. But is living another mouse's life really all it's cracked up to be? In this Far Out Fables adventure, Aesop's 'The...

"Ronnie Anne and Bobby Santiago are newcomers in Great Lakes City, living with their multi-generational family in a multi-cultural apartment building. Between helping out their abuelos, posing for their Tia Frida's latest art installment, or just getting some more family time with their cousins, it is never a dull moment. Join in all the laughs, love, food, and family with more all-new comic stories, featuring work from the creative team behind the...

"On a vacation in the countryside, Brina got a taste of her innate feline freedom when she briefly escaped her owners and joined a band of wild cats who left (or were left by) their owners. Now, Brina and her human owners, Samuel and Margret, return to life in the city. Brina must re-adapt to being a closed up indoor cat in an apartment and finding her own sense of freedom. Join Brina as she takes on would be car thieves, an army of street rats, pesky...