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When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives, Eugenia Lincoln tries to get rid of the instrument by selling it, destroying it, and giving it away, but nothing works.

Amanda and her alligator have lots of fun together, but when Amanda's grandfather buys her a panda, Alligator must learn to make new friends.

Best friends Elephant and Piggie decide that they will try to surprise each other, with unexpected results.

As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.

While preparing for a party, excitable little piggies have some close calls with Wolf.

After canine friends Scrappy and Flappy play an unusual game of catch, Scrappy complains that everyone has forgotten his birthday, but Flappy surprises him.

In this variation of "Little Red Riding Hood," Betsy Red Hoodie goes to visit her grandma with her friend Zimmo the wolf and her flock of sheep, but Zimmo, her mother, and her grandma have a surprise planned.

Bored with her ho-hum routine with her best friend Ollie, Claire secretly plans a new adventure with a mystery person.

Big Bear hears knocking on his door in the middle of the night, and is in for a surprise. Who could be knocking on Big Bear's door in the middle of the night? What if it's a ghost or an ogre or the big bad wolf? Big Bear's imagination is running wild. It's a good thing he doesn't open his door to strangers. But when Big Bear's best friend knocks on his door . . . Big Bear finds a surprise he never would have imagined.

Members of a large group of animals, including a penguin, two rabbits, and a koala, disappear at an alarming rate but the hungry lion remains.