Short rhymes take the reader through the months noting that each is nice for eating chicken soup with rice.

When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want. Farmer Brown thinks it's odd when he hears the sounds of typing coming from the barn, but his troubles really begin when his cows start leaving him notes. First they demand better working conditions, then they stage a strike!

Pinocchio, a wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.

Follows the progress of school buses as they take children to school and bring them home again.

Jemima Puddle-duck is determined to hatch her own eggs. But she needs a quiet, safe place to build her nest. The spot she chooses, guarded by an elegantly dressed gentleman, looks safe enough but turns out to be a very dangerous place indeed!.

Emily Elizabeth describes the activities she enjoys with her very big, very red dog and how they take care of each other.

Originally published in 1960.;Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee exploreswith rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much.--Provided by publisher....