The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.

Although Sophie wants to be helpful and good, sometimes she ignores her mother, father, and grandmother and must have a time-out.

Numbers from one to ten are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to prepare a meal.

The children bring home an old mongrel named Courtney who cooks, serves meals, juggles, and even saves the baby from a fire, only to disappear mysteriously.

After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.

Nancy wants to adopt a special puppy so that she is no longer the only fancy member of her family, but after a day of puppysitting a papillon, she realizes that being fancy is not always the most important thing.

When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that...

In words and pictures, a girl describes the three humans and two cats that live in her house, and details some of the traits that they share.

An imaginative ten-year-old boy, who is best understood by his family, recounts some of the adventures he has while daydreaming.

Examines the concept of family, the different kinds of families found in society, and the interpersonal relationships that make them function.