Five-year-old Sulwe has skin the color of midnight. She is darker than everyone in her family. She is darker than anyone in her school. Sulwe just wants to be beautiful and bright, like her mother and sister. Then a magical journey in the night sky opens her eyes and changes everything.

A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole where he is chosen to receive the first gift of Christmas.

When Cyrus the giraffe feels self-conscious about his neck, a turtle helps him understand its purpose.

A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene.

The pigeon's back! When the pigeon discovers a delicious hot dog, he can hardly wait to shove the entire thing in his beak. But then a hungry, clever little duckling enters the scene and wants a bite. Will he manage to outsmart the pigeon and get his share of the hot dog?

On Christmas Eve, snowmen hold a party in the center of town and celebrate with food, music and dancing, and presents.

Jeff the bear is sure he has forgotten something when he sets out from home, but none of the animals he meets initially inform him that he is only wearing his underwear, until he reaches his friend Anders the hare--who quickly thinks of a way to avoid embarrassing Jeff, by starting a fashion trend.

The enormous crocodile devises secret plans and a few clever tricks to secure his lunch only to have them foiled by his neighbors. The other jungle animals thwart the ferocious crocodile's plans to eat some "nice juicy children" for lunch. The Enormous Crocodile decides that he wants a nice juicy child for lunch, horrifying the other animals in the jungle--his friend, the Notsobig One; Humpy-Rumpy, the hippopotamus; Trunky, the elephant; Muggle-Wump,...

When Duck gets tired of working for Farmer Brown, his political ambition eventually leads to his being elected President.

"In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what"--