self-acceptance

Tired and bored with his life as a dog, Spike leaves home to try doing what other animals do.

Shunned because of his sharp quills, a good-natured porcupine is distressed until he meets someone who shows him that he is lovable, quills and all.

Simpson Snail goes to a costume party, makes a new friend, learns to sing, and sleeps over at Tucker Turtle's house.

An introduction to concepts of feelings, self-esteem, and assertiveness.

At first upset about having to wear glasses and an eye patch to correct her lazy eye, five-year-old Becca soon discovers that her new accessories allow her to take on such roles as a ballerina-pirate and a private eye.

A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young woman.

Zaza is embarrassed by the unusual life she and her family of actors leads, until a friend helps her regard it as wonderfully exotic rather than weird.

Little Nina, after wishing hard, suddenly becomes as big as a grown-up and gets to experience their viewpoint, as the adults in her life become knee-high.

Wild, a bighorn sheep, and Woolly, a ranch sheep, decide to try each other's lives but find that they prefer their own after all.

Punchinello learns that it can be difficult, foolish, and even dangerous to try to keep up with the latest fads and that Eli, his maker, gave each Wemmick different characteristics on purpose.