A lively counting parade begins with one slow tortoise and ends with one hundred and one big, biggest, small, playful, powerful, plodding elephants.

Readers learn about numbers and colors as a lively kitten visits the barnyard asking mother animals about their babies.

A crew breaks up old pavement around a hole in the road, sets up cones, works with jackhammers, and prepares for diggers, dump trucks, and rollers to do their work, hauling in rocks and rolling the asphalt flat as they repair the road.

People in the various vehicles stuck in a long line of traffic wonder what is holding them up.

Harry measures his yard, maps the streets near his house, draws nearby landmarks, and finds out all about making and reading maps.