Mabel on the Table is a story about a sneaky and silly dog named Mabel. Mabel likes to jump on the table and eat food when no one is looking, but then she learns some important lessons. Mabel on the Table encourages children to identify and communicate the emotions they are feeling, and that all emotions are valid. The story demonstrates that it is okay to make mistakes and to learn from them. It also encourages forgiveness and highlights the bonds of friendship.

An extended family gathers for Sunday dinner, but the food grows cold as Auntie Mabel's prayer encompasses everything and everyone in sight.

When Aunt Mabel plays a strange game with unlabeled cans at dinner, Alexander's manners are put to the test.

A cumulative counting rhyme presents the ingredients and techniques used by Miss Mabel to cook enough pancakes to serve ten people.

Hoping to avoid eating her peas, Mabel puts them in her ears and discovers that her impaired hearing leads to other problems.

The only kid on her block, Mabel can usually count on her grown-up neighbors for a game or two. Not today, though. Everyone is busy, and Mabel is a bit lonely . . . until she and her canine sidekick, Jack, think up idea after idea. There’s one-footed roller-skating and Super Ball bowling and enough rambunctious fun that even the grown-ups wonder what they’re missing. All they have to do is ask Mabel.

A reissue of the amusing cautionary tale about the girl with appalling table manners

"Mabel, the fanciest and sassiest dog the Hamptons has ever seen, causes all sorts of chaos for her parents with her naughty hijinx"--