Twelve-year-old Mary Wallace and her ten-year-old sister Jean survive the wreck of an ocean liner on its way to Australia and manage to make it to a seemingly deserted island in a lifeboat with four babies.
The author/photographer follows Evan with a camera for ten months and records his steps in learning to walk as Evan crawls, stands, climbs, walks, and runs.
As the Berenstain Bears prepare to celebrate Easter, Papa, Mama, and Brother reminisce about another Easter when Brother was given a very special surprise.
When his class of underachievers is assigned to spend three torturous weeks taking care of their own "babies" in the form of bags of flour, Simon makes amazing discoveries about himself while coming to terms with his long-absent father.