A lion starts visiting the local library but runs into trouble as he tries to both obey the rules and help his librarian friend.

In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a woman swallows a shell, a crab, a fish, a gull, a pail, some sand, and a wave.

It's dinnertime and Kitty is hungry. What should she eat? Fish? Nope! Beef? Ew! Octopus? Gross! Kitty knows exactly what she wants: CANDY! And nothing will stand in her way.

After playing video games for five hours, Kitty must do anything other than that, but her stubbornness eventually erodes when she finds that there are things that can be way more fun than video gaming.

Since the Cook Shop is closed, the reader is led around the United States to gather coal, cotton, granite, and other natural resources needed to make the utensils for preparing a cherry pie.

At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.

When a young Tanzanian girl gets a new baby brother, she finds a rock, which she names Eva, and makes it her baby doll.

When Clifford decides to follow his family on their camping trip, he arrives just in time to save Emily from an irate Mother Bear.

"Peek into this diary of an aluminum can as it goes on a journey from the manufacturing line to the store shelf to a little girl's home to a garbage can and finally to a recycling plant, where it emerges into its new life ... as a baseball bat!"--Cover back.

Daisy the duckling eagerly awaits the arrival of a new brother or sister, even helping Mama Duck sit on the egg while they wait for it to hatch.