Presents twelve poems about Thanksgiving, including "When Daddy carves the Turkey," "I Ate Too Much," "Daddy's Football Game," and "If Turkeys Thought."

As Amelia Bedelia helps Mrs. Rogers prepare for Christmas, she bakes a date cake with a calendar in it and stuffs the children's stockings with turkey stuffing.

Thirteen Halloween poems for beginning readers.

"Amelia Bedelia follows to the letter the list of instructions for looking after the Lanes' baby." --

"In this story of pioneers, Gretchen is saved by a mysterious white stallion. Carried away from her wagon train in Texas in 1845 by the old mare she is riding, a little girl is befriended by a white stallion. Gretchen's grandmother tells her how her great-great-grandmother Gretchen was rescued by a beautiful white stallion on her family's journey west in 1845. A lovely and exciting story, it is illustrated with remarkable ink drawings using cross-hatchings...

Literal-minded Amelia Bedelia does household chores and gets dinner ready.

"In three episodes Paul catches a fish for dinner, makes a puppet from a stuffed animal left outside over the winter, and brings home a turtle for a pet." --

A little girl adjusts to her new life in California with the help of her doll.

In the absence of his father, a boy imagines himself as a knight protecting his mother and sister in their castle, a big-city apartment.

"Aunt Emma's nine cats prove that there aren't too many of them when they catch a burglar." --