Best pet (from Rex and Lilly ...) / by Laurie Krasny Brown -- Why not get a pterodactyl (from Weird pet poems) / by Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Excerpt from A dog's tale / by Seymour Reit -- Kittens (from Henry and Mudge in puddle trouble) / by Cynthia Rylant -- My fish can ride a bicycle (from Something big has been here) / by Jack Prelutsky -- Selections from Danny and the dinosaur / by Syd Hoff -- Good day (from three stories you can read to your cat) / by Sara Swan Miller.