Lentil's harmonica playing saves the day when calamity threatens the homecoming celebration for the leading citizen of Alto, Ohio.

Little Sal and Little Bear both lose their mothers while eating blueberries and almost end up with the other's mother.

A shy mountain boy, nicknamed Chibi in Japan is ridiculed by his schoolmates, but they stop when they understand why he is "different." Chibi spends most of his time alone using all his five senses to study nature around him. Children don't like him, thinking he is stupid. One day a new teacher comes to teach them and Chibi's life changes for the better.

Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine. Describes the enchanting beauty of the island in rain, fog, sunshine, and hurricane.

When the Ambassador moves to London, the twelve little girls go to visit his son, Madeline has an adventure on a horse, and the horse returns to Paris with the girls.

Young Peter celebrated the magic and boundless possibilities of the very first snowfall.

A small boy imagines what it would be like to have his own rainbow to play with.

At bedtime a boy confronts the nightmare in his closet and finds him not so terrifying after all.

A young boy finds in the wind a playmate of many moods: one that can sail boats, fly kites, blow dirt, and turn umbrellas inside out.

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