I was... eight or nine when I read this children's anthology of short stories... I can't remember for the life of me what it to as called. There was one story with some kids who tried to bake a cake for their babysitter but confused the sugar and salt, a poem about how to discipline your dog (that one triggered me), and a Chinese story about some children enjoying the company of a magical tiger, but their paranoid parents chased it away.
I wasn't much of an avid reader back then, but I do wish I still had the books from that era.