Cyrus, a shy and friendly serpent, finally realizes his ambition by heroically helping some voyagers through a storm and foiling some dastardly pirates.

The smallest creatures of Knotty Pine Forest avert the horrors of the hunting season in a very "sportsgnatlike" way.

Tired of always being jerked and jolted along the tracks in last place, Katy Caboose devises a clever plan for solving all of her travel woes.

Five talented lions suffer from stage fright and are unable to perform their circus act. A new lion-tamer is hired.

Smokey, an old train, has been given up for scrap metal. He is so sad that he blows smoke rings in the shapes of letters. A teacher sees his letters and buys him for use in her classroom.

The Wump World is an unspoiled place until huge monsters bring hordes of tiny creatures from the planet Pollutus.

A little dragon gets lost from his family and is found by a farmer boy. In the end the king hires the dragon to participate in the Grand Spring Festival.

When the pinkish, purplish, bluish egg hatches, out comes a griffin named Ezekiel. The old owl insists that he is not real and the other birds finds him too ferocious-looking. But in spite of his eagle beak and lion body, Zeke shows that he had s heart of gold and is as meek as the turtledove who hatched him. In rhymed verse.

Unhappy about the noise and clutter of the city, a squirrel travels west to find peace and quiet in the forest of giant trees he has heard about.

Survival of the fittest? That's the law of the jungle,but in this book it should be survival of the nicest. And that is what the elephant is.