When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sight—and also big trouble. It turns out the dog, which Marty names Shiloh, belongs to Judd Travers, who drinks too much and has a gun—and abuses his dogs. So when Shiloh runs away from Judd to Marty, Marty just has to hide him and protect him from Judd. But Marty's secret becomes too big for him to keep to himself, and it exposes his entire family...

While hosting a tea party for her inanimate rock friends, Whale meets Quail and Snail and invites them to join.

Bronco the dog and three animal friends, all reluctant to attend a party for various reasons, decide to go together and receive a warm welcome.

"One hundred unusual animals try to squeeze into the oversized pages of this raucous rhyming tale. 'But can we fit a whole blue whale?' is repeated throughout, as more animals join the melange. [The whole whale is finally seen via fold-out pages]"--

Coco sets out to help her new friend, Bear, show other animals he is not mean just because he is big, and soon they all have learned something about kindness.

Cooper, a malamute-Great Dane puppy, finds purpose as service dog and emotional support animal to fifth-grader Burke, a boy in a wheelchair.

Little Bear's thank-you kiss from grandmother gets passed on to him by many animals and greatly aids the skunks' romance.

Too sick to perform his once-a-year job, Groundhog interviews other animals to come out of his hole on Groundhog Day.

The wind blows away the farmer's hat and he finds it being used in a most surprising way.

A baby orangutan says goodnight to each and every part of himself until sleep finally comes.