Dunbar, Joyce

Follows the activities of ten little mice as, one by one, they scurry home to their nest.

Willa wakes up early one morning full of questions for her big brother about what it will be like to be a grown up.

Jo-Jo can't go to sleep because of the monster under his bed that keeps gobbling up the darkness in the world until there is none left. When the monster sees the chaos the world is in without any darkness and night, it returns home to Jo-Jo's house and makes things right again.

When Panda gets a new toy, he wants to play with it himself and doesn't want to give Gander a turn.

Indigo wants to be a musician, not a fisherman like his father, and with the aid of an enormous whale he finally gets his wish.

After Pig, Sheep, Goat, Rabbit, Hen, and Mouse become enamored of their reflections in the pond, the silliest animal of all turns out to be the frog who tricks them into jumping into the water.

Smudge, the only rabbit in the woods without a brother or sister, is told by his mother to wait for spring, but that seems to Smudge to be a long way off.

A boy and his father make a sand giant while camping at the beach, and during the night it comes to life to make sand children.

When bullies try to take his property, a young bear learns how to stand up to them in a nonviolent way.