Cazet, Denys

A young rhinoceros learns self-confidence, love, and the value of memory from his great-uncle.

As Mother listens, Arnie, a first grader, describes his class trip to the aquarium.

A young Mexican American girl tells her father all the things she did on her first day in kindergarten.

Hamlet enjoys reading books and writing poetry, not playing in the mud and fighting over supper like the other pigs, but he finally finds someone who appreciates him just as he is.

Father tells a "guaranteed-to-put-anyone-to-sleep" bedtime story to Alex with humorous results.

Patrick misses Grandpa, especially at Christmas, but his mother helps him to remember happy times with Grandpa and to use what Grandpa taught him to make Christmas happy for himself and his friends.

Maxine is told to go straight to school, a directive it is really impossible for that irrepressible, adventuresome cat to fulfill.

Gregory the dog's vivid imagination gets him in trouble at school, leading him to draw cities and spaceships when he should be doing something else, but his artistic ability does not go unrecognized.

Grandpa and little Louie change their roles as they change their shoes, much to their own amusement, but much to Grandma's consternation.

All through school Russell the bear is worried about the little orange fish in his pocket, until he figures out how to return it to its pond.