Examines the history and popular culture surrounding vampires.

Examines mummies as monsters, looking at ancient Egyptian beliefs about death and the practice of mummification as well as recent representations of mummies in books, movies, and popular culture.

Provides the history behind the story of Frankenstein, including a brief biography of the author, the plot of the story, and a criticism of the adaptation of the novel into various stage and screen productions.

Santa tries all sorts of different jobs, including postal worker, zookeeper, circus performer, and even chimney sweep until he finds his true calling.

A simple account of Christopher Columbus' first voyage to America.

When Sue Ellen loses her diary, all her friends fear she wrote embarrassing things about them and hope to be the first to find it.

A young Abe Lincoln stumbles across a pig in trouble and decides he must help, even though it will mean arriving late and muddy for the important speech he is scheduled to make.

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.

Celebrates a toddler's increasing knowledge of the world, such as that rocks are heavy and flowers are light.

When Arthur's third-grade class competes at the Middle Ages Fair they lose at everything. Their only hope for victory is if Arthur can pull a sword from a stone.