Turtle and Snake go to the beach, where they and some other animals participate in a sandcastle-making contest.

Sister Bear learns an important lesson when she enters a jump rope contest and competes with Mr. Frog.

Benny isn't too happy to run into his teacher during the weekend but the encounter turns out to have happy consequences.

A skill-building reader published to coincide with the Olympics finds Hefty Smurf organizing the first-ever Smurf Championship Games to raise awareness about exercise, a competition that concerns an insecure Weakling Smurf.

Hoping to participate in the Critterville Kite Flying Contest, Little Critter busily attempts to fly a kite and finds the activity more challenging than anticipated.

"Mrs. Connor's first-grade class is trying to count from one to ten in less than a second. No one is fast enough to get all the way to ten before time is up...until the first graders work together to come up with a faster way to count"--

Mr. Monkey bakes a cake and enters it in a contest, but nothing goes as planned.

Thomas is determined to go to the Great Railway Show, even though the big engines tell him he's not big enough or strong enough to compete.