The part of third grade Ellen Tebbits likes most is having Austine Allen for her best friend. But after Ellen does something that makes Austine stop talking to her, she wonders if she will ever be able to prove her friendship.

An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree.

While chasing a dumpling, a little lady is captured by wicked creatures from whom she escapes with the magic for becoming the richest woman in Japan.

A young boy buys two goldfish and learns about fish food, the way fish breathe, and why plants are needed in a fish bowl.

The Sesame Street puppets star in ten humorous stories, each about a number from one to ten

Far off the coast of California loos a harsh rock known as San Nicolas Island. Blue dolphins splash in the water surrounding it, sea otters play in the kelp beds, and seabirds roots in its crags. Once, Indians also lived on the island-until one day they decided to leave and sail east. A young girl was left behind. Karana is that girl. Year after year, she waits for the ship to come back. But it never does. Finally, she realizes she must make a fateful...

One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake.

A bedraggled orphaned kitten is nursed back to health on a Yorkshire farm and when he recovers turns out to have a very unusual idea of who his mother is