Russell Hoban

Frances has trouble going to sleep because of frightening sounds and objects that may be going to get her.

When Rosie's popsicle stick turns into a horse named Stickerino, they have a lot of adventures. Follows the experiences of a discarded popsicle stick that is picked up by a little girl who dreams about a magical horse that gallops with her through cities, jungles, and over an ice-pop mountain leading to a gold-filled pirate chest.

Members of the Brute family, who kick and yell and live on a diet of sticks and stones, suddenly find their lives changed for the better when Baby Brute finds something nice in a field of daisies.