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.

To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

Alexander, the mouse, makes friends with Willy, a toy mouse, and wants to be just like him until he discovers that Willy is to be thrown away.

Jessica the frog befriends the animal that hatches from an egg she brought home, thinking it is a chicken.

Cornelius, a crocodile who walks upright, sees things no crocodile has ever seen before.

Mouse twins befriend a tree and watch it grow and change throughout each month of the year.

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.

A snail's father advises him to keep his house small and tells him what happened to a snail that grew a large and spectacular shell.

A visit to an art museum inspires a young mouse to become a painter.