On a summer day in Maine a little girl and a bear cub wander away from their blueberry-picking mothers and mistake the other mother for their own.

The noisy children of three neighboring families have a gay time at Christmas baking cookies, cutting and decorating trees, eating fruitcake and tarts, and opening Christmas gifts.

Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons.

As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

Because of a pooka spirit, Daniel O'Rourke embarks on a fantastic journey.

Burt goes fishing, takes refuge from a storm in a whale's stomach, and decorates a whole school of whales' tails with striped band-aids.

Marvin the ape slips out of the zoo and finds he likes it on the outside, where he easily blends into city lifestyles.

A litle gorilla unlocks the gate to the zoo, and the zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left there.

Peter wants to invite Amy to his birthday party but he wants it to be a surprise.

In the middle of all the activity on Christmas Eve, Spot the dog helps two reindeer find Santa's lost sleigh, and they take him on a special ride.