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Illustrations and rhyming text introduce four short stories about families including "Going to Grandma's Farm, " "Splat, " "Baby in the House, " and "Family Photo.".

Simple text and an amusing story of a young boy trying to gather his family and relatives together for a family photo teaches about prepositional phrases.

Messy Bessey learns a lesson about sharing when she cleans out her closet.

A young boy has fun creating a painting with a variety of colors.

A snowman becomes bored with snow because it is not colorful enough.

Rosie brings her dog Sam to school for show-and-tell.

Although they are very different, Sam, a big dog, and Mabel, a small kitten, become good friends.

Illustrations and rhyming text describe the funny different things going on all over the body.

An avid collector enumerates all the things that have been collected, from twenty-three keychains and fifty-one shells to a ball of tin foil five feet wide.

Illustrations and simple text that teaches about shapes through a story about buying and carving pumpkins.