In Aww Fishsticks by Lenora Riegel, Pax the Perch lives in Seneca Lake with his mother, and he dreams of swimming to the swishing, cascading waterfall. But Pax is nervous and doubts his ability to achieve this. With encouragement from his mother, Pax sets off...

Jam is a jelly jar. Then there’s Snap the pickle, Phil the paper bag and, the story’s protagonist, Pepper, the potato. Pepper’s friends find him buried in dirt and, you guessed it, dirty. They want to clean Pepper before they go to the fair by...