Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.

A tiny mouse helps a mighty lion, who once showed him mercy, escape from a trap.

A kind and hardworking duck suffers at the hands of a lazy farmer. When he nearly collapses from overwork, the rest of the animals come to his aid.

Tom is worried about getting lost in his new school and Sofia is excited about going to the big school like her sister.

As Handa and her friend Akeyo, young members of Kenya's Luo tribe, search for her grandmother's missing hen, Mondi, they find increasing numbers of interesting animals but the black hen eludes them.

Befriended by a magical fish, Yeh-hsien is granted her dearest wish to go to the village festival where she loses a slipper--P. [4] of cover.