Because Joe's Snack Bar always closes for the season, the townspeople speculate about where Joe goes for the winter.

With the help of their Aunt Tizzy, Myrtle and her baby brother learn how to deal with a mean neighbor named Frances.

"Mother Goose invites children on a city block to come out and play and when they do, they meet some of her most famous nursery rhyme characters"--

Exciting escapades follow Shirley's attempts to make an apple pie for Claude until one day an orphan boy makes a pie that wins him Claude's favor.

Rhyming text and illustrations describe the familiar faces and objects of a day at school.

Fourth-grader Jason and his younger brother Edward shop for school clothes, get ready for Halloween, acquire a couple of pet rats, and deal with not-birthday presents from Aunt Bea.

A girl preparing for school is surprised by the number of barnyard animals gathering in the road outside.

Shirley and Claude lead a settled life with their adopted son, Tom, until Shirley goes to town to retrieve Tom's sister, Bessie, and the two run into more than their share of trouble with criminals.