Lionni, Leo.

When his friend, the tadpole, becomes a frog and leaves the pond to explore the world, the little fish decides that maybe he doesn't have to remain in the pond either. A fable about a fish who learns from a frog how to be happy just being himself.

To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

Tico the wingless bird wanted a pair of golden wings to carry him up over the mountaintops; but when his wish was granted, his friends refused to talk to him.

Presents four stories featuring a field mouse, a house mouse, a minnow, and a fish who learn the value of friendship, imagination, and cheerfulness in hard times. Includes recordings of the stories on an audio CD.

Cornelius, a crocodile who walks upright, tries to do things no crocodile has ever done before.

Pictures and text describe the many different shapes and markings of pebbles--"fishpebbles," "peoplepebbles," "letterpebbles"--found on the beach.

The blue mushroom says only one strange word but Theodore the mouse convinces his friends that it means nice things about him.

Mishap turns to adventure as a young mouse learns that all birds aren't the enemies he thought they were.

Two little mice spend the day playing together and having fun.

The mice become so involved in their Mardi Gras masquerade they forget it is all in fun.