The night before he starts kindergarten Milo's dreams are full of worry, but after a fun first day of school, Milo decides that he likes kindergarten!

Ruby and Louise create their own Babysitting Squad business, but watching their first client, Percy Wardropper, proves to be a challenge.

McDuff the little white dog gets lost while chasing a bunny and needs help finding his way home.

At bedtime, Grandma tells Max and Ruby three favorite stories about themselves.

Timothy learns about being accepted and making friends during the first week of his first year at school.

Edward, a shy young bear, is not ready for birthday pool parties with high-spirited, grade-school bears.

Despite the doubts of some classmates and her native-born Japanese mother's inability to read English, Yoko finds the key to reading and catches up with the other students in putting new leaves on the classroom's book tree.

Shortly before the Warthogs' wedding is set to begin, ring-bearer Max loses the ring and he, Ruby, and their friend Louise search the Ritz Hotel from bottom to top trying to get it back in time.

While Ruby plans a Fourth of July doll picnic, Max sends letters to Santa to ask for "a bright red Sand-Spitter Motorcycle with Bigfoot tires," but the letters are delivered to his grandmother, instead, and she must try to decipher the pictures. Includes lift-up flaps.

Brief rhyming text and colorful illustrations tell what happens when parents and children share twenty minutes a day reading.