individuality

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individuality

Ruby in her own time

2007
Ruby, the smallest of five ducklings, is the last of the bunch to learn everything, but while Father Duck worries that she will never catch up, Mother knows she will do just fine in her own time.

Silly Suzy Goose

2006
Suzy longs to be different from all the other geese, but learns that imitating a lion may not be the best way to express her individuality.

Cowboy camp

2005
Although Avery cannot eat the right grub, is allergic to horses, and gets rope burns from lassos, he learns at camp that he is uniquely qualified in the most important cowboy quality.

Shelly

2006
Shelly gets frustrated when his three sisters insist that he do things exactly like them.

Chicken Chuck

2000
Chicken Chuck the rooster, who has set himself up as boss of the barnyard by virtue of the special blue feather in the middle of his forehead, finds his authority undermined by a circus horse with two blue feathers.

When I was five

1996
A six-year-old boy describes the things he liked when he was five and compares them to the things he likes now.

Sixth-grade glommers, norks, and me

2005
Allie Kimball discovers that middle school is a very different place than fifth grade and struggles to learn ways to fit in.

Monstergarten

2013
Feeling that he is not ready to start monster kindergarten, Patrick practices roaring, sneaking up on people, and baring his teeth despite his parents' reassurances that he need only be himself in school.

That's Papa's way

2009
When a father and child go fishing together, each does certain things his or her own way, and both have a wonderful day.

Elmer

1968
All the elephants of the jungle were gray except Elmer, who was a patchwork of brilliant colors until the day he got tired of being different and making the other elephants laugh.

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