Paradoxical Pets

Cats and dogs deserve acclaim, but dragons make great pets!
Love an octopus or polar bear and you'll have no regrets!
Not all pets are soft and cuddly... a dinosaur can be your buddy!
Spiders, sphinxes, parrots and kraken, all get to shine from front to back in...
PARADOXICAL PETS!

31 stories of weird and wonderful pets! Cover art and select interior illustrations by Kelsie Brumet!

Inside you'll find...
LOBSTERSAURUS Eric James Stone
FLUFFY PETS ARE BEST Holly Schofield
IF PRINCESSES WORE CONVERSE SNEAKERS Heather Santo
CHIMERALS Lena Ng
THE HOUSE OF TWENTY-THREE CATS Matt McHugh
NICOLE THE TIME TRAVELING PARAKEET Templeton Moss
MEGAN'S NOT AN UGLY DOG Linda Kay Hardie
OLAF AND LARS Kevin Lauderdale
EASY AS A BAG OF COOKIES Dawn Vogel
WAX EATER Jennifer M Zeiger
THE VAGABOND'S BABY Gregory L. Norris
THE GIRL, THE WYVERN, AND THE TALKING APE Matias Travieso-Diaz
THE FIRST RAT ON MARS L. R. Conti
TAKE ME TO YOUR LITTER BOX Peter Wood
SPREAD YOUR WINGS Laird Long
P IS FOR PET Beth Cato
QUEEN OF MARS California Lee
A HOME FOR MR. BINKY James N. Wood
ALISTAIR Jenny Blackford
DINOSAUR CLONES AND OTHER TEENAGE CONCERNS P.A. Cornell
BIRDS OF A FEATHER Thomas Canfield
EIGHT, TO THE EIGHTH Liam Hogan
DILEMMA WITH THE OMNIVORE Keyan Bowes
BLAME IT ON THE GHOSTS Annie Reed
TAKING FLIGHT Mike Lewis
THE WIZARD'S BOOK TASTES OF FLIGHT Jennifer Hudak
KEEPER OF THE GHOST SQUID Wendy Nikel
MY HOMEWORK ATE MY DOG Mike Murphy
MOLLY AND SQUIRT Vanessa MacLellan
HOW TO CONFRONT THE SPHINX HAUNTING YOUR GARDEN Alexei Collier
CHROMATOPHORIA Rebecca Demarest Panzer