Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include "How the Whale Got His Throat," "The Elephant's Child," "How the Alphabet Was Made," and "The Butterfly that Stamped."

Tom and his sisters are having a great time in their best clothes until Mother calls them home for a tea party. She is very upset and sends the kittens to their bedroom wher they continue to have fun.

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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

When his colleague Long Arrow disappears, Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia the parrot on an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating Spidermonkey Island.

Relates how Jimmy Skunk repays Peter Rabbit for a practical joke and what happens when he and Unc' Billy Possum go hunting for eggs in Farmer Brown's henhouse.

Poppleton the pig plants a dogwood tree, gets a cold, and tries to hang wallpaper with the not very helpful aid of his friends.

When he doesn't know what to give his mother for her birthday, a small boy asks all the animals for advice.

Chicken Little and his feathered friends, alarmed that the sky seems to be falling, are easy prey to hungry Foxy Loxy when he poses as a police officer in hopes of tricking them into his truck.

Farmer Brown does not like Halloween, but the animals hold a Halloween party in his barn.