These books feature magical and fantastical settings, stories that always end with a moral that can be summed up in a line, and many, many very cute creatures with big eyes and long eye-lashes. I am pretty sure In Search of the Saveopotomus was the first of this collection that I read, to judge by the state of my copy. It’s still one of my favorites, telling the story of a poor “Hoardasaurus” dinosaur who is fretting over keeping all his prized possessions (an old bone, a boken chain, a piece of rock, a yo-yo with no string, and of course silver) safe, and goes on a quest to find the Saveopotomus. Along the way he ends up giving many of the things away and learns that it can be liberating not to have too many possessions.

Some of my other favorites were Serendipity (treat the oceans nice!), The Gnome from Nome (friendship is what warms you on the inside!), and Flutterby (be yourself!).

Some of the books can be a bit over-the-top with the cute factor and the starry-rainbow-sparkle-unicornishness, but I loved them as a kid and still enjoy looking through them now. And while the morals are well chosen and important, the stories themselves are fun and don’t beat you over the head with the message.