Injured by a passing motorboat, a pregnant manatee is rescued and taken to an aquarium to recover and have her baby in a safe environment.

Slow Loris was a slow loris, or so everyone believed, until one night when the other animals in the zoo see him doing something unusual. In the zoo, where Slow Loris lives, he's just, well, slow, boring. It takes him ten minutes to eat a Satsuma and an hour to scratch his bottom. Hardly the most exciting sight at the zoo. But Loris doesn't care. He has a secret--at night, when the rest of the zoo is sleeping.

Hare likes to hurry through the day, unlike Tortoise, but manages to slow down for his favorite bedtime story.

"When young Amy brings a sloth home for a visit, her family, the speediest in town, learns how to slow down to talk, play, and laze."--Publisher's description.