Patz, Nancy

Includes "Algie and the Bear," "The Tooter," and "Dizzy McPete.".

Benjamin and Elephant are sent to the store to buy some groceries but Elephant makes so many rhymes and puns on the list that they forget what they are supposed to buy.

Sweet Sidney wakes up and begins to prepare eagerly for spring's arrival, but Sarah Bear insists it is still too dark and cold.

When his best friend Annabella Pelican moves far away, Thomas Hippopotamus is very upset and angry, until he recaptures the warm memories of all the things they shared.

Benjamin and Elephant are sent to the store to buy some groceries but Elephant makes so many rhymes and puns on the list that they forget what they are supposed to buy.

Benjamin and Elephant are sent to the store to buy some groceries but Elephant makes so many rhymes and puns on the list that they forget what they are supposed to buy.

Benjamin and his friend, an elephant, get in and out of trouble while getting ready for bed.

The independent Gina Farina, one of a troupe of traveling players, has a contest of wills with the grouchy Prince of Mintz when she refuses to follow his ironclad rules.

The author, having seen an unlabeled, solitary women's hat displayed in Amsterdam's Jewish Historical Museum, ponders the joys and sufferings its unknown owner might have experienced.