A little girl finds the empty home of the three bears where she helps herself to food and goes to sleep.

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals in the barnyard before he grows into a beautiful swan.

"Playful hints help readers guess the identities of 14 adorable baby animals."--

Because of his "'satiable" curiosity about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child acquired, and all elephants thereafter have had, a long trunk.

When Grampie Groundhog decides to retire from forecasting the weather, he has twins Greta and Gregory draw straws to see who will take over the important job, but the winner is so nervous the two put aside their squabbling and work together.

While going on a picnic together, Herbert Hippo teases Tess Tiger about all of the things she has brought along, until he learns just how important they can be.

Shirley and Claude move across Texas in their covered wagon, looking for a peaceful place to settle down.

When a snail convinces Sam Slug that he is a snail without a house, they begin a futile search for Sam's lost shell. Includes facts about slugs.