Mittens the kitten goes for a walk with Nick, but he is distracted by a butterfly and becomes lost.

Mittens the kitten searches for his friend Max, a dog, so they can play together.

When Mittens the kitten digs a hole under the fence in the yard, he meets a new friend--Max the dog.

Although Juno, a Korean American boy, cannot read the letter he receives from his grandmother in Seoul, he understands what it means from the photograph and dried flower that are enclosed and decides to send a similar letter back to her.

When her shivering baby is born on a cold winter night, a mouse follows some animals to a special manger where she receives help from another mother.

Tallulah doesn't look like the other young mermaids living in the ocean. Her tail is a dull gray. And when all the other mermaids go on a quest to find the special gemstones that make their tails sparkle with color, Tallulah doesn't find her gemstone at all. When Turtle suggests that Tallulah searches the Great Lakes she is eager to give it a try, even though the other sea creatures believe mermaids don't belong in lakes. Tallulah explores the Great...

Introduces how different animals and even human babies grow from being newly-hatched or born, through being carried everywhere, to having their own special place to sleep.