Told in rhyming text, Brian tries to get his fellow piranhas to try his fruit and vegetable platter, but they all prefer meat--like those human feet dangling in the water.
When a little girl who cannot fall asleep asks her mother for help and her mother describes the way different animals sleep, the girl tries the methods one after another and only finds herself more awake.
When he is ordered by his doctor to stay silent for a whole week to let his sore throat get better, a dinosaur who loves to roar tries to endure life without doing what dinosaurs are meant to do.