After the sight of a night sky filled with stars makes eight-year-old Uma feel very small, she asks people how they think about infinity and gets a variety of answers before realizing the comfort in knowing that some things go on forever.

Ruby insists on copying Angela, until her teacher helps her discover her own creative resources.

Corey wears an orange cape to school every single day. The other kids make fun of him and Billy, the school's biggest bully, rips off his cape over and over again. One day, they hear the reason why Corey bravely wears his cape. Suddenly, more and more capes start to appear...

Yaz is so jealous of her friend Debby's drawing ability and the attention it brings that she does something mean, then must find a way to set things right.

Although his teacher insists there are stories everywhere, Ralph cannot think of any to write.

When the kindergarten classroom gets a pet guinea pig Eliza is afraid, but when the guinea pig gets lost, Eliza helps find her.

Beep! Beep! Little Blue Truck and his good friend Toad are excited to meet a bright yellow school bus. They see all the little animals lined up in the school bus's many windows, and Blue wishes he could be a school bus too. What a fun job-but much too big for a little pickup like Blue. Or is it? When somebody misses the bus, it's up to Blue to get his friends to school on time. Beep! Beep! Vroooooom!

"A five-year-old recounts the cool new things she got to do in the first twelve days of kindergarten"--

Mr. Gilbert brings in a guinea pig as a class pet, but it looks so lonely he brings another, and before long the class is getting an unexpected lesson in addition--and a very full cage.

Members of Theo's class help him understand his feelings about becoming a big brother.