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A cumulative tale about Henny Penny and her barnyard friends who were literally outfoxed on their journey to tell the king the sky was falling.

The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it.

As the gravedigger tells his wife how a band of cats marched into the cemetery to mourn their dead king, their own cat, Old Tom, listens with a strange intensity.

Instructions show how to do a wide range of projects, using readily available materials.

Discusses the behavior and the habitats of different kinds of animals and what can be learned by observing birds, mammals, insects, and other kinds of wildlife.

Text and photographs present animals in amusing poses.

Presents, in brief text and illustrations, a variety of animals, birds, and insects notable for their unusual looks and behavior.

Introduces recordholders of the animal world, including the largest lizard and the fastest mammal.

Forests are tree filled areas. Many of the plants and animals of forests are threatened by man's invasion of the forests including logging and farming.

Color photos and simple text provide a close-up view of skin, shell, and scale.

Describes the characteristics and uses of the teeth and tusks of different kinds of animals.

Describes the characteristics and uses of the different kinds of fur and feather coverings of animals and birds.

Introduces a variety of animals, such as koala, fruit bat, walkingstick, snail, and howler monkey, that seek safety, food, and shelter in trees.

Instructions for a variety of simple experiments examining the reflex, instinctive, and conditioned behavior of such animals as mealworms, fruit flies, and goldfish.

Introduces animals, freely moving about the African forests and plains.