A young mouse decides to spend the night camping out alone in his backyard, but his parents have other ideas.

Although he finally agrees that he has too many toys and needs to give them away, there is one toy that Spencer absolutely cannot part with.

A boy whose parents are preoccupied with preparations for a new baby imagines what life would be like if he could have new parents.

A variety of babies are featured such as: agama lizard, arctic tern, pickerel frog, brown trout, common yellowthroat, and human; all asking the question, "How am I special?" Deep in a tree trunk by a woodland grove, a fox kit asks, 'How am I special?

As their mothers and fathers listen, animal preschoolers describe favorite things to do.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal a parent's musings about what a child will become, knowing that the child's kindness, cleverness, and boldness will shine through no matter what, as will the love they share.

After Isabelle breaks the cookie jar, she and her brother Jerome invent a variety of wild stories to explain the damage to their mother.

A poetic recounting of how the birth of a child changes the lives of the parents.

A child, on the verge of being left behind by parents who are going out for the evening, comes up with a variety of pleas and excuses.

Since her parents are too busy in the morning to listen to her say that she loves them, Lola the hamster waits all day long for another opportunity to say the words.