A young boy named Banjo Cannon always eats a sausage for dinner, until the night that his sausage--and the rest of his meal--runs away. What happens if someone's dinner decides that, well, it doesn't want to be eaten? For a hungry little boy named Banjo and a savory sausage named Melvin, it's a plight that can only result in a breathless escape - and what a chase it is! Off speeds the sturdy sausage - leading fork, knife, and plate, chair and table,...

When Hamish and Hermione Hole are chased out of the cheese where they live, they search for a new home wreaking havoc wherever they go, but their luck turns when they are discovered resting in a piece of wood by a palace carpenter, who knows that holes can be really useful, especially when making two beautiful flutes.

The adventures of various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters are retold in backward sequence with each tale interrelated to the other. Includes Goldilocks, Jack and the beanstalk, Jack and Jill, the frog prince, Cinderella, and the gingerbread man.

"An original collection of wry and playful poems for the very young"--P. [4] of cover.