Leo Lionni

A little chameleon is distressed that he doesn't have his own color like other animals.

Frederick, the poet mouse, stores up something special for the long, cold winter.

A little blue spot and a little yellow spot are best friends, and when they hug each other they become green.

Alexander, the mouse, makes friends with Willy, a toy mouse, and wants to be just like him until he discovers that Willy is to be thrown away.

Jessica the frog befriends the animal that hatches from an egg she brought home, thinking it is a chicken.

Three selfish frogs quarrel over who owns their pond and island, until a storm makes them value the benefits of sharing.

An owl helps a farmer and some crows reach a compromise over the rights to the wheat crop.

Mouse twins befriend a tree and watch it grow and change throughout each month of the year.

After a storm blows some of them away, the letters on the alphabet tree learn from a strange bug to be stronger by forming words, then a caterpillar comes along and tells them that words are not enough; they must say something important.