Frederick the field mouse sat on the old stone wall while his four brothers gathered food for the approaching winter days. The other mice felt that Frederick was not doing his share of the work, but when the food ran out, Frederick saved the day with what he had gathered.

When Theodore the mouse happens upon a blue mushroom that makes a strange sound, he sees in it an opportunity to show his boastful friends that he is special, too.

After a field trip to a museum, Matthew the mouse decides that he wants to be a painter, and he fulfills his parents' dream, though not exactly as they had expected.

Timothy, a city mouse who has been transformed into a tiny man, searches for his true identity among a group of field mice.

The field mice become so involved in their Mardi Gras masquerade they forget it is all in fun.

A colorful introduction to different types of food.

In Swimmy, Swimmy, a black fish, shows a school of little red fish how to escape the jaws of bigger fish by swimming in the formation of one large fish. In Frederick, although Frederick appears to be the laziest member in a family of busy field mice, he makes valuable contributions in the middle of winter. In Cornelius, Cornelius, a crocodile who walks upright, sees things no crocodile has ever seen before. In Fish is fish, when his friend, the...