Laura Rankin

Presents the handshape for each letter of the American manual alphabet accompanied by an object whose name begins with that letter.

Ruthie loves tiny things and when she finds a tiny camera on the playground she is very happy, but after she lies and says the camera belongs to her, nothing seems to go right.

Chronicles the friendship between a duck, Fluffy, and a dog, Baron, from their first meeting when Fluffy is just a duckling through the time when she has babies of her own.

Shows how to count from one to twenty and twenty-five, fifty, seventy-five, and one hundred using American Sign Language.

A younger brother offers detailed advice on how to annoy older sisters.

Hopscotch the rabbit refuses to wash his ears until his older cousin comes to visit and he learns something about being grown up.

Harriet helps her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate cheating at the racetrack by disguising herself as a jockey.

In three separate stories, children help adults solve problems related to food, first by saving a restaurant from being shut down, second by untangling a mess in a spaghetti factory, and finally by selling donuts to raise funds for a stolen car.