All were published by the series' producer, Lyrick Studios, under the imprint name Big Red Chair Books.
Several are novelizations of television episodes, while others adapt stories not featured in the TV series.
Wishbone: The Early Years is aimed at much younger readers than the other series, and as such are much shorter.
The books share the structure of the TV series and The Adventures of Wishbone, but are set several years prior to the TV series, featuring a younger Joe and Wishbone as a puppy.
Unlike The Early Years, the Tales of a Pup books were not directly titled for their source material, and two of the five were not based on folktales but rather a short story and a novel.