THE PARTY WRECKER Eight-year-old Jordan is beyond horrified when he discovers that his mom has volunteered to let his ten-year-old neighbor Brad spend a week of summer vacation at their house while Brad's parents travel out of state for the funeral of a distant relative. All the kids in the neighborhood know that Brad is, without a doubt, the worst kid around. He's rude and obnoxious, not to mention the fact that he is absolutely the b ...
Everyone on the beach is headed to spend the day in and around the largest tidal pool. The crab family, starfishes, oysters and others are invited to the big party. Janice, a pale pink jellyfish wants to play in the tidal pools but her family and the sign nearby the tidal pools say she isn't allowed inside. What happens when an extra-large wave drops her into the tidal pool? Will she be allowed to stay and make new friends or will one of th ...
Frankie Rabbit has played on the playground nearly every day this summer. He is tired of playing on the same old equipment. He decides to go find out what is happening on the mini golf course nearby. When the golf balls come at him, he dives into one of the buildings to hide. Has he discovered a new wonderful place to play? What happens when he tries to climb up the windmill? Will they see him and chase him away? Can he make it back to tell his ...
Francine is a small coral crab who lives in the reef and helps to protect it-or at least he will when he gets bigger. He is playing along the reef one day when he sees two eyes peeking at him from underneath a rock. As he gets slowly closer a small octopus creeps out from underneath the stone. Francine has never seen an octopus before so he screams and runs home to tell his mom he saw a monster. When he comes back with his mom the octopus is gon ...
Every year, the Lily Pad Jumping Contest is held and Bernard Frog has won for the past two years. The water of the pond is deep and cold, with the lily pads providing safe places to land and jump. Deep in the pond lives a very large catfish who loves to dine on frogs. The two main jumpers in the contest, Bernard Frog and Tobias Toad are good friends but this contest threatens to override that friendship because both contestants are determined to ...
Katarina is six years old. She has been caught telling a few tales that aren't true. She tells her parents about animals in her closet and monsters under the bed so that she can spend the night in her parents room and some of them were real whoppers. Katarina didn't seem to be overly frightened when she told these stories so her parents begin to suspect. They have a discussion with Katarina and discover that she wasn't telling the ...
Christine Crocodile is always looking for food for her hungry family, but she can't move very fast on land. She decides to ask her neighbor, Bixby for advice and maybe a little help because she is tired of eating fish for every meal. Bixby likes a good practical joke as well as anyone especially the hyenas and he decides to play a trick on Christine. He chases an antelope towards the water but snatches it from her at the last second jumping ...
Bobbie Bumblebee lives with his very large family in the hive located high up in the oak tree. Today is his first time to show off his flower dance and bring home nectar from the flowers. However, Bobbie is afraid of the enormous butterflies that swarm over the purple butterfly bush near the daylily bed. He wants to bring home some of the special nectar from the butterfly bush but can he overcome his fear of butterflies in order to do so? His fa ...
Billy has always lives a hard life with her mother. She has been doing chores and errands since she was seven, because she wants to help her mother. She goes to school and waters her neighbor's small urban garden for a few dollars when she goes home. Billy doesn't have friends because she is just too busy to have fun. She is afraid that if she does have friends, they will just hate her for always leaving them to do chores or errands. O ...