Frederick the field mouse sat on the old stone wall while his four brothers gathered food for the approaching winter days. The other mice felt that Frederick was not doing his share of the work, but when the food ran out, Frederick saved the day with that he had gathered.

A little black fish in a school of red fish figures out a way of protecting them all from their natural enemies.

When his friend, the tadpole, becomes a frog and leaves the pond to explore the world, the little fish decides that maybe he doesn't have to remain in the pond either.

Mice experience day, night, and the seasons.

Splashes of color and abstract forms tell the story of little blue and his friend little yellow who hugged and hugged each other until they were green -- and unrecognizable to their parents.

Little Blue and Little Yellow are the best of friends, and when they reunite after not being able to find each other, they give each other such a big hug that they turn green. On board pages.

After a storm blows some of them away, the letters on the alphabet tree learn from a strange bug to be stronger by forming words, then a caterpillar comes along and tells them that words are not enough; they must say something important.

Pictures and descriptions of the many different shapes and markings of pebbles--"fishpebbles," "peoplepebbles," "letterpebbles"--found on the beach.

Friendly mice discover the other animals who share their world.

Jessica the frog befriends the animal that hatches from an egg she brought home, thinking it is a chicken. Three frogs find a large white egg that they are sure is a chicken egg, until the "chicken" hatches and meets her mother, who looks an awful lot like an alligator.