A child provides insights, based on personal experience, into everything that can go wrong if one brings an alligator to school for show-and-tell.

Irene and her menagerie of pets, including Max the duck, take in an alligator who has run away from the zoo, in spite of grave concerns about his voracious appetite.

When Zack soaks his new alligator keychain in water, it grows into a full-sized and fun-loving alligator.

Jessica the frog befriends the animal that hatches from an egg she brought home, thinking it is a chicken.

"Alan is very scary. He says things like 'I'm big, scary Alan! Fear my razor-sharp teeth!' But all is not as it seems. Alan, you see, has a very BIG (not-so-scary) secret"--Front jacket flap.

Alfie, a young alligator, learns the best way to ask for a cookie from his mother.

"A Wolf and his best friend, Little Lamb, have found an egg ... An egg that hatches into a snippy, snappy crocodile named Omelet! All the forest animals are wary at first. But in no time at all, Omelet wins everyone in the forest over with his kindness and friendship. Well, almost everyone. Can the residents of the forest change their ways and learn to stop judging a book by its cover?"--