This book presents the first black baseball player to play in the major leagues.

"One day a tiny cricket is born. He meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. The tiny cricket tries to respond, but he cannot make a sound. And so the cricket makes his way in the world, meeting one insect after another who greets him with a cheery hello."--P. [4] of cover.

Although P.J. and his friends refuse to let Donna and Honey Bunny go camping with them because "camping is not for girls," the girls follow and get proof that camping is hard work even for boys.

A small snowball gets bumped by a skier and rolls down the hill growing in size and picking up people as it goes.

Discusses different types of bears, focusing especially on the period when the mother comes out of hibernation with new cubs, describing how they hunt for food, what they eat, and how the mother protects her young.

Ducks escape from trucks that are stuck in the muck.

Corduroy sets out to make Lisa a special surprise for her birthday but it turns out to be much harder than it looks.

The black woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why.

Corduroy shows Lisa that writing letters to express your opinion can make a difference.

Cat manages to help her team win a close baseball game.