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All Sophie wants for her birthday is a pet giraffe, but as she tries to convince different members of her rather complicated family to support her cause, each tells her she is using too many words until she finally hits on the perfect one. Includes glossary.

When Turtle makes an off-hand remark to Bird at the watering hole one day, Bird's misunderstanding starts a series of rumors that stirs up the other animals.

As one creature passes it on to the next, Chack the blackbird's message to his friend Apollo the swallow undergoes major changes.

A scurvy pirate crew, led by Burnt Beard, finds trouble when they try to hide their treasure in Old Cheyenne and have some miscommunication with Black Bob McKraw and his posse.

When Cuckoo hatches and does not speak the same language as the rest of his family, he bravely sets out to find someone who can understand him.

Gerald, whose communication in the form of clangs, toots, and blasts, distresses his parents and the kids at school.

Old Mr. Mackle Hackle is concerned when his hen will not cackle, so he takes her to a doctor and a fortune teller, and even tries telling her chicken jokes, but once her chicks are hatched the tables are turned.

"One day, Nora returns home from kindergarten upset because a boy in her class told her that she has the legs of a flamingo! When her mother gives her a magic wand to read people's minds, a new and fascinating world opens for her. She discovers that people don't always say what they think or think what they say"--

The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to an African rainforest, where the siblings encounter gorillas and learn to communicate with them.

A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Doctor Dolittle" during which a physician discovers that he has a strange and wonderful gift for talking with animals.