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Little Bill makes a special valentine for Mia but is reluctant to give it to her because he is afraid that the other children in their third grade class will tease him.

Although his brother's friends make fun of it, Little Bill is very proud of the toy boat he has built and becomes very upset when it is wrecked the first time he puts it in the water.

Little Bill gets in big trouble when he tells a fib to explain why he has come home late for dinner.

One night, little Bill is positive there are mean things in his dark closet and that they are just dying to get him. Only when Alice the great performs a magical tucking-in trick do the mean things go away for good.

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Shortly before his father's death, Prince Akeem learns that he sired an illegitimate son during his last stay in the United States and now he has to return to Queens to retrieve him to ensure a male successor to the throne.