Text and illustrations introduce homophones, words that sound the same but have different meanings and often, different spellings.

As a child talks to the sun, the reader can see some of the sun's happy effects.

Simple text and illustrations of a variety of insects introduce the numbers one through five.

Rhyming text presents related words, such as short and long, page and book, and night and moon.

Ants increase by multiples of ten as they march up the hill toward a tall cake.

When Messy Bessey starts to clean up her desk at school, she inspires the rest of the class to clean up the entire room.

Illustrations and simple text tell a story about Messy Bessey and her very messy bedroom.

A little boy does everything the doctor tells him to do when he goes for his check-up.

Charlie is chilly all over and needs a hug to warm him up.

A child rhapsodizes about rocks from big to small and precious to commonplace.