Stephen Krensky

Santa tries his hand at many jobs before finding the perfect job as the world's greatest gift giver.

Noah is distracted by animals making whatever sound comes into their heads while he is trying to build, then pilot, the ark, and so he devises a way for each animal to choose only one sound.

Frustrated by Santa's slowness at Christmastime, Muckle the elf creates a mechanical replacement called the Deliverator and proposes a series of contests to prove that it can do Santa's job better than he can.

Lionel's many school-related adventures include a nervous Back-to-School night with his parents, the welcoming of a new classmate, a sister who doesn't seem to recognize him, and an experiment with time.

After observing her teacher at the supermarket, at the mall, and even in a park, a young child begins to think that the teacher has a secret life.

When a boy moves with his family to a bigger castle, he finds that some things about life in the new place are different, some things are the same, and he gets more comfortable the longer he is there.

Louise has been practicing, planning, and even dreaming about this year's soccer season. So how can it be that, from the very first practice, she's thrown so completely off her game?..."