Monsters of different colors explain what makes them feel glad, sad, loving, worried, silly, and angry, and fold-out masks encourage readers to talk about their feelings.

The nutshell kids: A group of alligators sing their way through the alphabet, Johnny playfully counts from 1 to 10 and then back again, Pierre flaunts an "I don't care" attitude until an encounter with a lion, and learning the months of the year is fun while eating chicken soup with rice. Where the wild things are: Max sails away to the land of the wild things. In the night kitchen: A little boy dreams of a kitchen at night where bakers bake cakes...