During rainy days in Cuba the father makes paper boats out of old newspapers and sails them down the stream to an unknown destination. Includes instructions for paper folding.
The narrator recalls the sights and sounds of the street vendors who came to her house when she was a child and the lessons she learned about being fair and honest.
In the Kingdom of Geometry the triangles, squares, and other shapes live in peaceful harmony, until one day the King decides that squares are superior and discrimination arises.
Every afternoon the neighborhood children of various ethnic and social backgrounds gather to play and sing traditional nursery rhymes in the town's park.