Selected stories from Kipling's two "Jungle Books" chronicle the adventures of Mowgli, the boy reared by a pack of wolves in an Indian jungle.

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.

Timothy learns about being accepted and making friends during the first week of his first year at school.

Bindi has her birthday party at the zoo, but after one of her guests decides to take home one of the zoo's water dragons, it is up to her, her brother, and a green macaw to find the water dragon before it is too late.

Lonely in his house beside a road in the desert, Alejandro builds an oasis to attract the many animals around him.

Fern dares Arthur and his friends to enter the poetry writing contest at the local library, but writing poems turns out to be harder than they thought.

Former beauty queen and fledgling private investigator Madeline Maclin has married her best friend, Jerry Fairweather, and settled into his old house in the small town of Celosia, North Carolina. Jerry seems to have given up his cons and schemes but not his phony séances. Then Amelia Lever, an unpopular teacher at Celosia Elementary School, dies mysteriously. Convinced hers is not a natural death, Maddy starts to investigate. And then comes Maddy's...

Cat's automobile trip to the beach is interrupted when his animal friends ask for a lift.