The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.

As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

Numbers from ten to one are part of this lullaby which observes the room of a little girl going to bed.

Feeling neglected, Nora makes more and more noise to attract her parents' attention.

A mother duck leads her brood around the pond as she searches for one missing duckling.

A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team composed of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, who makes all their dreams come true.

With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician.

Everyone in Morris's family is pleased with his Christmas present except Morris.

A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth.

Rambunctious Froggy hops out into the snow for a winter frolic but is called back by his mother to put on some necessary articles of clothing.