Explores the importance of rules and laws in the family, classroom, school, community, state, and nation, looks at the process of making laws, and discusses citizenship, law enforcement, and the purpose of government.
Presents three children's stories with sign language interpretations, including the title story in which five monkeys say good night but find it hard to go to sleep.
When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.
Presents an adaptation of the Cinderella story in which Ella of Frell, given the magical "gift" of obedience as an infant, finds her compulsion to obey any and all orders a bit inconvenient when she is left at the mercy of her nasty stepmother and stepsisters, and sets out to find the fairy Lucinda to undo the curse.