Happy first birthday, Little Duck! Everyone wants to look their best for the party. But Little Duck has never had a birthday beforeso how better to learn how to prepare than to do what all the other animals do! The sheep trim their woolso Little Duck trims her feathers. The pigs need a mud bathso Little Duck quish and quashes, too. All over the barnyard Little Duck snips, slurps, squishes, and shimmy shakes herself ready until...WHOOPS! Its party...

Skeleton is dancing his way to a Halloween party, but as he grooves across town, he keeps stumbling, tumbling, and falling apart.

Little Critter goes to Tiger's birthday party and brings a kite as a present.

Guests at Little Frog's birthday party include the red fox, the purple butterfly, the orange cat, and other colorful animals. The illustrations are designed to demonstrate the concept of complementary colors.

Middle-school drama queen Nikki Maxwell worries about asking a boy to her school's "sweetheart dance."

Nikki's diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister's ballet class party at the same time she is Brandon's date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has promised to spend the evening with her two best friends.

The fairies throw a frost party.

A young pioneer girl and her family attend a wintertime party at her grandparents' house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

The Halloween party on Shivermore Street is not to be missed, especially when the clock strikes thirteen.