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Today is Princess Magnolia's birthday party, and she wants everything to be perfect. But just as her guests are arriving ... Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! Princess Magnolia runs to the broom closet, ditches her frilly clothes, and becomes the Princess in Black! She rushes to the goat pasture, defeats the monster, and returns to the castle before her guests discover her secret. But every time Princess Magnolia is about to open her presents, the...

Aurora decides to throw her three good fairies a surprise party, but she finds it difficult keeping the party a secret.

Hubie feels left out when his teacher announces a class costume party and he, unlike his classmates, has no ideas about what to wear.

With her birthday coming up, Jessica hopes that, just maybe, her present will be a real-live potbellied pig. Jessica can hardly wait for her party with Judy Moody and all their friends. But Judy Moody is acting like a pig-head, and Jessica UN-invites her from the party. To make matters worse, Jessica has snooped around the house and has found zero sign of a pig present. Could her birthday be any more of a disaster?

Today is the big dino party! Digger and Dadasaur take a ride into town to get a cake, but before long, they end up lost. Can Digger help find the way?

Freddy is apprehensive about the haunted house that Chloe plans to have at her Halloween party but tries to hide his fear from his classmates.

Bears come from far and wide for a big Berenstain family reunion.

Paddington must set things right when a magic trick he attempts to perform at his birthday party does not turn out as planned.

It's Carly's turn to take the class guinea pig home just in time for Groundhog's Day.

Deja's birthday is coming up, and she and her best friend, Nikki, have been planning the perfect party for weeks. But just before the big day, Auntie Dee gets called away on a business trip, and Deja has to stay with old Miss Ida ... who cooks turnips for dinner and doesn't even have a color TV! Worse, a sneaky scheme hatched by Antonia threatens to ruin Deja's party plans. -- P. [4] of cover.