Staying behind when their circus moves on, a young clown and a troupe of baby animals put on a special Christmas Eve show for an Italian village too poor to celebrate the holiday.
Arthur panics when he is called to the principal's office and given a large envelope marked "private and confidential" to take home to his mother, and though he cannot think what he has done wrong, he knows he must be in terrible trouble.
Arthur and his friends can hardly wait for the latest Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club book to arrive at the library, but when they find the popular series has been banned, they decide they have to take action to get their books back.
Illustrations and simple text describe the many ways animals care for their eggs and young, with facts about animals, hatchlings, and their environment.
Arthur really wants to enter a song in the Crunch Cereal Jingle Contest, but when he cannot come up with a good idea, he enters a song his sister wrote instead.
Looks at how different animals, such as a rainbow trout, chimney swift, and slender loris, approach the challenges of catching flies, digging holes, eating clams, and hatching eggs.