individuality

While the other beavers in his family furiously flip-flap their tails and chomp-chomp their teeth to make a new dam, young Thelonious takes a moment to smell the flowers.

Tom Cat is not sure he is a cat at all, preferring to pretend to be a cow, a pig, or even a bat until the day he utters a "meow" and discovers that it feels pretty good.

Lizzie, who has always been considered a nerd by the other kids, begins the seventh grade determined to change her image so that she can blend in better with the popular crowd.

Brigid wants to have a pair of the plastic shoes that all her classmates are wearing, but her fairy godmother thinks it's better to be a trendsetter.

Because he is so different from his eccentric parents, twelve-year-old Guy is convinced he has been switched at birth with a classmate whose parents seem more normal.

Simple text and illustrations introduce children to other children with different and unique backgrounds, cultures, and traditions, highlighting the fact that differences can be a reason to like one another.

Scurvy and Spiny Burr team up with an exiled and bitter burr in an attempt to take over Burrwood Village and get rid of nice guy, Sticky Burr, once and for all.

Felicity the witch begins turning herself into a cat as soon as she is old enough, and even though the rules say that she can only turn back into a witch eight times, she does it again on the ninth night.

A country mouse goes to visit his best friend, a dog who lives in New York City, and even though the two of them are very different, they have a great time.

When the Trolls move next door to the Priddles, both families find the other strange, which causes many misunderstandings.