A child is a friend, neighbor, helper, artist, dancer, daydreamer, and stargazer.

A puppy named Abby assumes a different identity for each day of the week until Sunday, when she is just herself.

When he awakens from hibernation, Little Bear's hunger leads him to a house where a Purim celebration is just beginning.

Rufus, a young wolf, has a hard time fitting in at the Big Bad Wolf Academy where he has been sent to learn to huff and puff until the day he uses his true talent.

When a careless worker places the wrong sign near a rhinoceros's cage, zoo visitors continually mistake the frustrated rhino for a hippopotamus, until a young boy comes along who can help.

Morris faces taunts and criticism when he wears an orange dress to school, but things begin to change for him after he uses his imagination to paint a fantastic picture that he shares with his classmates.

A duckbilled dinosaur, accidentally raised by fierce tyrannosauruses who would eat duckbills if only they could reach them, tries to be like his "family" but finally gives up, runs away, and finds a real home with others of his kind.

In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.

"When Swift Fox's father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that she'll learn how to be Mi'kmaq, the butterflies grow even bigger. What if she doesn't fit in with her family?"--Provided by publisher.

When Parker visits the museum with her mom and friend she is captivated by the portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, a picture that inspires self-assurance and hope within herself.