Although a boy is lonely after the hatchling duckling that followed him home finally joins other ducks, he soon meets another creature.

Edgar the robot is unhappy when his family moves to a new town, until he meets Cecil, an alien, and they become friends.

A boy's simple questions about why he cannot fly lead to an imaginative journey with his father.

The members of the Vowel family have a hard time talking until their children, Alan, Ellen, Iris, Otto, and Ursula, are born, and when one of them gets lost one day, it takes their Aunt Cyndy to fix the problem.