When a fever confines eleven-year-old Paul to bed, he folds paper to create imaginary playmates and to transport himself into other worlds. Includes instructions for paper folding.
Josephina, a javelina who dreams of becoming a famous ballerina, heads for California hoping to be discovered, but her cousin Angelina takes her to a talent agent who looks strangely familiar.
Presents a Southwestern adaptation of the classic fairytale "Little Red Riding Hood" in which Little Red rides her pony Buck to Grandma's ranch with a jar of cactus jelly in the saddlebag.
While staying with relatives in California after the death of her mother, ten-year-old Lavina sees the arrival of the automobile and experiences the great San Francisco earthquake.