Told through a series of notes, two boys go on a hike hoping to find Yeti but run into trouble along the way.

While Ruby plans a Fourth of July doll picnic, Max sends letters to Santa to ask for "a bright red Sand-Spitter Motorcycle with Bigfoot tires," but the letters are delivered to his grandmother, instead, and she must try to decipher the pictures. Includes lift-up flaps.

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.

When Ernie leaves the city and goes to live in Arnhem Land, he sends letters to his old classmates describing the activities of his new friends.

"Connie's art class is partnering with Nic's as pen pals, and the two of them love trading their artistic creations back and forth. They have slightly different approaches to art, but sharing their perspectives is what makes being pen pals so fun. Both of them eagerly await the end-of-year art festival where the classes will finally meet, but they are in for quite a shock..."--Jacket flap.

"The hilarious tale of an ox who is in love with a gazelle, told in correspondence"--

Archie and Zack are inseparable, both in elementary school and outside it, but Archie is having trouble telling Zack about his love, so he writes a letter, from A. to Z.; in fact he writes a lot of letters, but they do not sound right so he hides them--and though his other friends, Zelda, Zinnia, and Zuzella, find the letters, they all understand who the letters are really for.

"A little girl adopts the prickliest stray kitten at the shelter because sometimes she feels prickly, too"--

Even though he knows it might mean he receives no presents for Christmas, Parker writes a brutally honest letter to Santa.

A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.