Olivia decides to throw her mother a surprise birthday party, and with a little help from her father, her grandmother, and her brother she fixes a menu of red foods and gets everything ready.

Illustrations and rhyming text show what to expect when dinosaurs show up at your birthday party, from their bringing moldy presents to their eating all the food.

It's Livia's 40th birthday and she's having the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding she never had. Everyone she loves will be there except her daughter Marnie, who's studying abroad. But although Livia loves Marnie, she's secretly glad she won't be at the party. She needs to tell Adam something about their daughter but she's waiting until the party is over so they can have this last happy time together. Adam wants everything to be perfect...

Charley Maplewood has never been one for parties? that would require friends, which he doesn?t have. But now that he?s turning ten?the big oneoh? he decides to throw a birthday party for himself. Of course things don?t work out as he plans. In trying to make friends, he ends up inviting the class bully, and that?s before he ruins the cake and sets the garage on fire. Will Charley be able to pull it together before the big one-oh . . . becomes the...

Eight-year-old Emma is excited about her best friend Izzie's birthday party, but she is also a little worried because she is deaf and communicates through sign language, and her cochlear implant does not work well in noisy crowds.

It's Karen's birthday and she's having two parties--one at Daddy's house and one at Mommy's house, but what Karen really wants for her birthday is one party, with her whole family together.

Curious George learns to use his senses of smell, hearing, and touch to do the best thing of all--taste the candy from a piѕnata!

Though they'd rather be boiled in oil, Judith McMonigle Flynn and her cantankerous cousin Renie have agreed to cater a seventy-fifth birthday bash for their batty old Uncle Boo Major, the billionaire breakfast mush magnate. Luckily their culinary obligations keep them busy in the kitchen of the sprawling Major manor and away from most of their contemptible kin — until the septuagenarian birthday boy is discovered deceased behind his locked

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"Pirates are a dangerous and dirty lot, but when they get an invitation to a little girl's birthday party, they're simply delighted... but Pete the pirate parrot makes them clean up before they go. No bath, no cake."-- From dust jacket flap.

When the Sweet Sixteen party plans of a local rich girl are overshadowed by pranksters who key her expensive car and post a video of the act on the Internet, Frank and Joe resolve to identify the culprits.