Velma starts first grade in the shadow of her memorable older sisters, and while her newfound interest in butterflies helps her to stand out, it also leads to an interesting complication.

Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes biographical information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s.

Illustrations and rhyming text describe a pair of twin sisters, who look very much alike but have different hobbies and interests.

Ling and Ting are identical twins that people think are exactly the same, but time and again they prove to be different.

Luke the firefly has no glow of his own so he stays near his friends, and when they are caught in a jar, his difference makes him uniquely qualified to help.

Emma looks just like her father but wishes she did not, so each year she tries a new look, until one day she realizes that looking like her father is not necessarily a bad thing.

A dog and a cat, both newly adopted and forced to share a room, do not get along until a howling, smelly, terrifying newcomer unites them in a common cause.

Audrey is disappointed when she is unable to float, fly, and hop like her animal friends, but they remind the little girl of her special place in God's creation.

Bernard isn't like other birds. His wings are impossibly long, and try as he might, he just can't seem to fly. He's left wondering what his wings are good for -- if they're even good for anything at all. But a chance encounter with a dejected orangutan leads Bernard to a surprising discovery: that maybe what makes him different is actually something to be embraced.

Shows how each of us fits into life's big picture, and how the world would be incomplete without each person in it.