Imprisoned by Natacha, a witch, in a New York apartment, Alex must tell her a new scary story every night in order to stay alive.

Two young storytellers start with "once upon a time" but quickly realize that a good story needs action, danger, and most of all, a happy ending.

The reader becomes the storyteller in this funny, interactive picture book. Tell me a story--a new one--and make it about a ______!

While two monsters argue over how the story they are telling should go, Dennis, a very hungry dragon, is listening nearby--and he has very definite ideas about how this story should end.

While picking up milk for his children's cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himself on a wild adventure through time and space.

"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...

Buddy Pennington is headed to river country. No one in his village will miss him anyway -- not even his mom, after what he and his bad luck did. He'll be better off with his daddy, Davey Boy Pennington, a wandering soul who has the best luck of anyone Buddy knows. Pop might even teach Buddy his legendary skills at Parsnit, a mysterious card game of magic, chance, and above all, storytelling. No one tells a better story than Pop. But no sooner are...

Bear, with the help of his animal friends, remembers the story he had hoped to tell before the onset of winter.

"According to the narrator of this book, a unicorn, a dinosaur, and a shark were riding a bicycle. But they say that's not true, and they just want to take a load off for once. They're tired of being told what to do by the bossy storyteller! And who is a reader supposed to believe, anyway--a book's narrator or its characters?"--Book jacket.

Outlaw Rexi Hood, bound to Princess Dorthea, joins forces with reformed knight Mordred to steal the sword Excalibur from the Wicked Witch so that she can write her own story.