Five friends sit happily on a windowsill, waiting for something amazing to happen. The owl is waiting for the moon. The pig is waiting for the rain. The bear is waiting for the wind. The puppy is waiting for the snow. And the rabbit is just looking out the window because he likes to wait! What will happen? Will patience win in the end? Or someday will the friends stop waiting and do something unexpected?--Publisher.

Crisantemo loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce such basic concepts as adjectives, adverbs, daytime, and nighttime as they follow five elephants marching from dawn to dusk.

In the middle of fall, it takes only one gust of wind to turn the whole world yellow and red and orange.

Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse; she does something for which she is very sorry later. Lilly has a brand new purple plastic purse that makes music when you open it, a glittery new pair of sunglasses, and three shiny quarters. Anxious to show her new possessions to her favorite teacher and her classmates, she disrupts Mr. Slinger's class and he gets angry....

Penny has a new sled, but will it ever snow?

Penny feels guilty after taking a beautiful blue marble that she sees in Mrs. Goodwin's grass, but gets a pleasant surprise when she goes to return it the next day.

Three little birds crack their way out of eggs and fly away, leaving one egg sitting all alone until the three chicks come back and discover a friendly baby alligator has finally hatched.

When Old Bear falls asleep for the winter, he has a dream that he is a cub again, enjoying each of the four seasons.