Presents four stories about best friends Monkey and Robot, who try out Halloween costumes, visit the beach, consider what to do with a tire they find, and figure out if it is morning or night.

Meet Emily, and her new friend-sort of ... Emily loves her shiny black lunch bag-the jewels, the way it sparkles. But one day a new school bus picks her up, and in the confusion she forgets her lunch bag on the bus. Will she get a ticket, like that loud girl Vincetta Louise said? Or will Emily be forced to eat the Secret Lunch Special? From fickle friendships to mystery meat, kids everywhere will identify with Emily as she navigates the rough waters...

A terrier named Ivan keeps interrupting story hour.

A boy whose parents are preoccupied with preparations for a new baby imagines what life would be like if he could have new parents.

In a story where almost everything is black and white, Dylan, a dalmatian, escapes from his home and becomes involved in a soccer game between penguins and skunks.

After placing the red kitten with Dave the firefighter and the blue kitten with Francine the police officer, Mrs. Tuttle finds homes for fourteen other colorful kittens.

A lonely New York City resident finds companionship and good cheer at the Westway Cafe where dreams come true.

Tells the story of how Helen Frances Theresa Delaney Martini cared for baby zoo animals, started the first zoo nursery and became the first woman zookeeper at the Bronx Zoo. You are a Bengal tiger cub, one of three -- Dacca, Rajpur, Raniganj -- abandoned by your mother.You are so cold and thin that someone with kind hands puts you on a heating pad and sits by you for hours, moistening your mouth with milk. When you give a weak cry and look up, there...

Mother and child ponder the past in discussing who might have traveled down an old, old road, looking backwards from pioneer settlers all the way to prehistoric animals.

When Daddy rides off on his horse in a terrible snow storm to deliver the mail, his family anxiously awaits his return.