A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.

This educational and enjoyable book helps children understand how to plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings, and nurture their growth. Lois Ehlert's bold collage illustrations include six pages of staggered width, presenting all the flowers of each color of the rainbow.

An escaped housecat encounters twelve birds in the back yard but fails to catch any of them and has to eat feathers for lunch.

Horace feels really mean at the end of a bad day, until he helps his mother make Mean Soup.

After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.

Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother. Follow the progress of a little girl and her father as they purchase "a garden, " and board the bus to carry it home. The pansies, tulips, daffodils, geraniums, and daisies are lovingly planted in a window box, and the candles on the cake are lighted--just as Mom walks in the door to find her daughter, her husband, and her birthday surprise.