Even though his much loved pet fish can swim, eat, and blow bubbles, Max wants an animal that can dance.

The ingenious author of 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore and a brilliant illustrator and production designer of the Coraline movie have created a hilarious, touching picture book perfect for young animal lovers. Like the Caldecott Medal-winning Officer Buckle and Gloria, Sparky stars a pet who has more to offer than meets the eye. When our narrator orders a sloth through the mail, the creature that arrives isn't good at tricks or hide-and-seek...

Alex and his mother write notes back and forth in which Alex tries to persuade her to let him have a baby iguana for a pet.

After Elizabeth's parents do not agree with her various suggestions for the perfect pet, she discovers a solution.

Gilbert has everything a goldfish could want except a pet of his own, but none of the animals who come near his fishbowl seem quite right until Fluffy, with his long tail and whiskers, appears.

A boy is excluded from joining his friends' pet club because of his unusual pet.

"After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--Provided by publisher.

The Bear family enter all of their pets into the pet show at the Bear Town Festival--Little Lady, Gracie, Swish, and Keats--but everyone wonders which pets will receive prize ribbons from Mayor Honeypot.

A clever spider is lonely and longs to become a family pet.

Frustrated because the rules for her class's Pet Day will not let her take her dog to school, Junie B. Jones considers taking a raccoon, a worm, a dead fish, and other unusual replacements.