Amanda is very excited about starting first grade, and although everything is not exactly as she expected, she soon begins learning to read and finding her way.

Amanda the pig sees monsters at night, but her parents and her brother find different ways to convince her that there are no monsters.

As her family travels by wagon train to Oregon, a young girl gathers scraps of cloth so that she can make a quilt. Includes historical note.

Young Jesse and his family are with a wagon train traveling from Indiana to Oregon when they stop to celebrate the Fourth of July, but Jesse is too young to go hunting with the men so he comes up with his own contribution to the festivities.

Amanda Pig and her friend Lollipop share fun times at each other's houses and experience their very first sleepover party.

Amanda Pig and her family and friends try to find different ways to beat the heat.

Presents five stories about telling secrets, playing alone, and other activities in the lives of Oliver and Amanda who are sometimes known as Mighty Pig and Amazing Baby Pig.

When her brother goes off to school, Amanda finds new things to do, including ballet dancing, cleaning her room, and making a very sad, mad day go away, with the help of hugs from Mother Pig.

Five more adventures of Amanda Pig and her family are told here, in which noisy cousins come to visit and Father gets a stuffed toy for his birthday.

Tired of gangster movies and a steady diet of candy wrappers, three theater mice decide to rob a cheese shop.