Oxenbury, Helen

The birthday child's animal friends bring ingredients and help him make a birthday cake.

Tom likes his father to read to him and his toy monkey, Pippo, but when his father gets tired Tom "reads" to Pippo himself.

Tom and Pippo go to play in a sandbox and end up making a new friend.

A young boy causes turmoil in the doctor's office while having a checkup.

A little girl is not looking forward to her first day at nursery school until she makes friends with another new girl.

Familiar animals and things illustrate the numbers one to ten, twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty.

Introduces the letters of the alphabet with words describing the various objects in the illustrations.

When they find a treasure chest in the orchard, two discontented pigs abandon their rural paradise for what they think will be the pleasures of a more luxurious life.