Richard Binsley

When Shimmer decides to use the little bugs' Bug-a-boo Day costumes to stage a spooky play, she discovers that putting on a show is a lot more work that she thought.

When Will gets his picture in the paper, everyone his parents know start phoning the house, and he's famous. People in stores recognize him. Friends treat him differently. Dewitt has to help Will keep his head straight... until the photo of a cow that can stand on 2 legs replaces him in the limelight. // When the small creek of Dewitt's idyllic childhood clogs up with garbage, Will organizes an effort to clean it up.

It's Will's turn to take the school pet home- a baby ranivorous python. But the snake gets loose in the house around the same time Dewitt learns its scientific moniker means "frog-eating." // Will knocks a baseball goes the fence. He has to go apologize to Mrs. Grunetsky and ask to get his ball.

Sam whispers a secret to Will and makes him promise not to tell. But the secret seems to have a mind of its own. // Will has a line in the school play. Dewitt coaches him to be the very best talking tree trunk he can be.

Will is finally tall enough to go on the rollercoaster at the County Fair. But he doesn't want to be. // Every child in Will's class has to draw a self-portrait for display in the new school Art Cabinet. But how to get an accurate likeness when your own drawings are coming to life and mocking you?

When Sam and Will argue over who's the biggest Frogboy fan, Dewitt helps him plan a series of interviews to find a new best friend. // Will gets his first short book with no pictures in it at all, and tackles it as though it's an unclimbable mountain.

Will volunteers to watch a neighbor's dog for the afternoon, but the Great Dane has different ideas about how they should spend their time. // When Dad accidentally backs over Will's bike, it looks like time for a new one. But Will stubbornly refuses to get a new one... he wants the old one back.

Mom says Will is old enough to go to Sam's house by himself (through a fence, on the other side of the grotto). DeWitt reminds Will about famous explorers whose expeditions went wrong. As mom watches from the upstairs window, Will sets of with a compass, water and every other emergency supply he can think of, to face the perilous journey. // Will plants potato seed and can't wait for it to grow.

Will finds a single lost walkie-talkie and, using clues from conversations that it remembers, tries to find its owner. // Will is looking forward to his first plane flight... until he sees the gigantic, noisy jet at the airport and needs a big boost of Dewitt encouragement.

A waitress calls Will "Sir"... and he thinks he's become a Grown Up. The responsibilities! The things he has to learn! Meanwhile, Dewitt silently worries: does this mean his playful, silly best friend will soon be too grown-up to goof around with him? // Will gets permission to stay up until 10:30 p.m. to watch a lunar eclipse, beginning an exciting journey into a traditionally adults-only domain: night-time, where a single yawn can be "an automatic...