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Two little chickens are worried about their first day of school and hope they will make new friends.

When Christopher Rabbit learns to count in school, he enjoys it so much that he counts everything in sight, including how many baskets his friends make when they play basketball and how many peas and carrots are on his plate.

Molly buys so many balloons for all her animal friends at the fair, she gets carried away into the air.

Little Hippo cannot wait to grow up and complains that all the other animals are bigger than him, until he helps a small beetle and feels better about himself.

"When two little chicks go to the playground for the very first time, everything looks scary -- the seesaw, the merry-go-round, the swings, even the slide. But it takes just one slide down to turn two frightened little chicks into two brave little chicks"--P. [4] of cover.

Mouse frightens all of the animals she sees by shouting that a dragon is going to eat the sun, and then come after them.