Lionni, Leo.

Cornelius, a crocodile, is born different, and has a different outlook on life than the other crocodiles.

Mouse twins befriend a tree and watch it grow and change throughout each month of the year.

Frederick, the poet mouse, stores up something special for the long cold winter.

Frederick, the poet mouse, stores up something special for the long cold winter.

Swimmy, a small black fish, finds a way to protect a school of small red fish from their natural enemies.

A little chameleon is distressed that he does not have his own color like other animals until he meets another chameleon who proposes a special idea that makes him feel better.