Rosemary Wells

What a great day it's going to be! Yoko's mother has made her favourite sushi for lunch. The bus whisks Yoko to school, where she greets all her friends. But when lunchtime arrives, suddenly everyone notices Yoko's sushi. The teasing starts and her happy day evaporates.

Max makes an earthworm cake for Grandma's birthday and helps Ruby with her angel surprise cake. At the store, the grocer can't read all of the shopping list, until Max solves the problem by drawing a picture.

Follows Emily, Roger, and all their classmates month-by-month through the kindergarten year.

Stella is unnerved by a bullying group of weasels who say mean things about her humble home until her mother offers words of comfort and her father drives the trailer to a new location where kind friends are found.

A very young rabbit's wish of being sung to, talked to, and carried.

A duck watches as the itsy-bitsy spider goes up and down the water spout.

Sad bunny children are cheered up when they are transported by the benevolent Bunny Queen to the magical Bunny Planet, where they experience their bad days as they should have been.

A little white dog that nobody seems to want finds just the right home--and a name. No one wants the nameless little dog wandering the streets looking unsuccessfully for food and shelter until kindhearted Fred and Lucy, a young couple, take him inside. After they feed him rice pudding and bathe him, they realize that they cannot bear to return him to the pound. Newly adopted, McDuff–named that night for their favorite shortbread biscuit–is last...

The inhabitants of Old MacDonald's farm are described, verse by verse.

A collection of six stories featuring the teachers and students of Hilltop School as they learn about taking turns, working together, and never giving up.