"One spooky night in the fall, Mouse creeps out and hears bats flying flit! flit! flit! and apples dropping plop! plop! plop! and children singing 'trick or treat!' What could it be?"--Jacket flap.

When Farmer Brown goes on vacation, leaving his brother Bob in charge, Duck makes trouble by changing all his instructions to notes the animals like much better.

There's a small green frog on a half-sunk log in the middle of the bog. He eats one tick, two fleas, three flies, four slugs, and five snails. And the frog gets a whole lot bigger. Then a hungry gator shows up, ready to eat the big fat frog. The frog opens his mouth wide to scream and out comes everything he's eaten! And the frog gets a whole lot smaller. The gator swims off, the frog keeps away from the log, and the insects keep away from the frog....

"Mouse is transported in a new world that has colors, letters, and even friends!"--P.[4] of cover.

Numbers from one to one hundred climb to the top of an apple tree in this rhyming chant.

When Mama plays hide and seek with her five ducklings, Little Quack finds the best hiding place of all. Readers can use the quack-u-lator to count the ducklings as they hide.

Pictures and rhyming text show how some fathers, animal, bird, and human, take care of their children by bringing them food, playing with them, and keeping them safe.

A mouse and its mother experience the delights of nature on a windy spring day.

"Duck and his friends are at it again. But this time they're pooling their considerable resources to win a local talent show, because first prize is a trampoline."--Cover back.

A loving mother counts the hugs she gives her baby throughout the day.