When a baby mouse is born, her mother seeks just the right name in the gifts and advice of her neighbors.

A retelling of the classic fairy tale from the point of view of Rumpelstiltskin, who spins straw into gold (for cash payments), but really dreams of having a son to raise.

""Thao" seems like a simple enough name. Only four letters-- all of them belonging to many other names! And yet Thao had been called everything from "Tail" to "Theo" to "Towel." At one point, completely fed up, she decided it was time to try another name. Something "easy." Something like "Jennifer." But trying to be someone else only works for so long. And eventually "Jennifer" is swayed back to being herself when she opens her lunchbox and finds...

In the city of Seriden, the thief called Coin is Nameless-- she has no family, no legal rights, and no standing in society-- but she inherits the throne and the power and danger that come with it. In the city of Seriden, everyone expected the king's daughter, Esther, would inherit the throne. Instead, it went to a thief called Coin. She is a Nameless-- no family, no legal rights, and no standing in society. In a palace where the corridors are more...

In her diary, Daphne Davis doodles, draws, and documents a series of disasters on her first two days of fourth grade, most of which result from her new teacher accidentally calling her Daffy.

Chrysanthemum thinks her name is absolutely perfect, until the kids at school make fun of her. Owen loves his blanket, Fuzzy, but he is getting too old to carry it around all the time. Quiet-as-a-mouse Sophie must learn to assert herself with bossy, big-mouthed Wendell. The polliwog watches the caterpillar grow up and turn into something else. Spend a day playing and having fun with Hondo the dog and Fabian the cat. A small mouse is accidentally carried...

Features nine of Henkes picture book stories featuring his mouse characters.