Anna comes up with a great idea for the fall festival's paint-a-pony competition, but she worries that her entry will be sabotaged by annoying Tommy and Mike.
Amos and Dunc are off on a Caribbean cruise when Amos wins a "Why I Love My Dog" contest, but before they know it, they wind up with more high seas adventure than they'd bargained for.
Busy O'Brien works hard campaigning for her friend Mr. Ficken to win the town's Good Neighbor of the Year Contest, aware that her rival Jolly Van Pelt has entered her aunt.
Gordie the goldfish and his friends enter a bowling tournament, hoping to win the grand prize, a ten-gallon aquarium, so that all of his friends can play together. Includes facts about goldfish.
During the dog days of summer, Sophie Dog hears about a yodeling contest for which the grand prize is a trip to a yodeling school in the Swiss Alps, and she convinces her best friend, Louise, to enter with her. Includes facts about dogs.
When Harry wins a pony in a contest, his friends try to find a way to help him keep it, but it is his aunt and her friends who come up with a solution.
Twelve-year-old Littlejim, a bookish boy living in a rural North Carolina community in the early years of the twentieth century, hopes to win a newspaper essay contest and thus gain the respect of his stern father.
