Speckles the spider and Crumbs the cricket think a caterpillar is too ugly to be their friend, but Annie the ant insists that something beautiful might be inside.
Tombo, the biggest, fastest, and strongest tadpole in the pond, teases and chases all the other tadpoles, but he comes to regret his bullying when he turns into the smallest, slowest, and weakest frog.
Spike enjoys being rebellious and rude, bullying and tattling on his classmates, and generally being mean, but after he falls into one of his own traps and hurts himself, his life is transformed.