individuality

Although she dresses differently from the other girls and does things which are unusual, Velvet eventually teaches her classmates that even an outsider has something to offer.

Grandmother Rose's garden provides a place for children of different backgrounds to meet and become friends.

A curious chick is disappointed at all the things his mother says he cannot do, such as swim like a duck, until he discovers one wonderful thing he can do very well.

Trumpet the Unicorn fits in with all the other mares, until his first birthday when he begins to grow a horn.

Kindergarten children describe the likenesses and differences among themselves.

Gertie the hen is appalled when her son Frank wants to swim with the ducks, but Jemima and her mother, the farmer's wife, make the young chick a special outfit so that his dream can come true.

Ruby, the last of Mother Duck's and Father Duck's eggs to hatch, is slower to develop than her four siblings, until the day that she flies further and higher than any of them.

Having learned to be creative in drawing pictures at home, young Tommy is dismayed when he goes to school and finds the art lesson there much more regimented.

Although children are different in appearance, they all have ten toes, favorite clothes, and love to play.

Twin boys and a number of animal families express their uniqueness and introduce the numbers from one to ten as well as fifty and one hundred.