The well-known author and illustrator relates the story of his life and work.

The author describes the spring and summer his family adopts a large South American rodent for a pet.

A haughty lion accidentally loses his mane. His friends find a remedy, but it creates a new crisis.

Dudley the rooster's ability to make the sun rise with his crowing is questioned by a spiteful goose, whose malice almost destroys the popular rooster.

Bruce, a bear bully, never picks on anyone his own size until he is diminished in more ways than one by a small but very independent witch. "Another animal fant