When a bear discovers that the moon shares his birthday, he buys the moon a beautiful hat as a present.
 

Bootsie Barker is a tiny terror who kicks dogs, sticks out her tongue, and throws temper tantrums. But when she turns her nastiness on her playmate, Bootsie receives a taste of her own medicine.

A stray dog in New York City is adopted by a taxi driver, with whom he thereafter rides and shares adventures each day.

After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.

A young fly discovers, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about being an insect, including the dangers of flyswatters and that heroes come in all shapes and sizes.

When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.

A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store.

A teacher imagines the chaos that takes place when she stays home one day because she is sick.

A little duck finds adventure on the Yangtze River when he is too late to board his master's houseboat one evening.

After planting the garden he has dreamed of for years, Mr. McGreely tries to find a way to keep some persistent bunnies from eating all his vegetables.

The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it.

How can an ant, butterfly, mouse, sparrow, and rabbit all take shelter from the rain under the same mushroom when, at first, there was only room for the ant?

Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

Ma has made a dozen delicious cookies. That should be plenty for her two children. But the doorbell rings--and rings and rings and rings...

A little boy wishes he could whistle.

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