A cow that oinks and a pig that moos are ridiculed by the other barnyard animals until each teaches the other a new sound.

Since he was knee-high to a grasshopper, little Stu's favorite place to visit was the nearby zoo. He was there so often that even the animals recognized him. The animals' sounds, from the coos and the snorts, and the squeaks and bellows, and the brays and the whistles, were music to his ears. His mother called it a symphony. Stu loved to pretend to be a conductor when he listened to the animals. But now there is trouble brewing at the zoo. A man wants...

As darkness falls in the forest, animals hoot, chirp, whir, and bark, lulling drowsy children to sleep.

Simple rhyming text describes the sounds and activities of animals during a day on the farm.

When the children go back to school, the animals on the farm are bored, so they go into the library in town trying to find something to do.

A little chick shows that he can make the sounds of the animals in his neighborhood.

Illustrations and simple text describe the ways various animals communicate, such as "Owls hoot, " "Pigs squeal, " and "Bees buzz."