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Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion.

America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers tackles ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.

Fourteen brief folktales in which there is a mystery or problem that the reader is invited to solve before the resolution is presented.

The reader follows Waldo as he travels through different time periods in history and must try to find him in the illustrations of some of the crowded events in which he participates.

". . . each scene is completely dark until the savvy reader slides a wand underneath to 'light up' a small section.

The reader is invited to find Waldo and each of a group of unusual portraits in the detailed illustrations of crowds in a gallery, at a sporting event, and in other settings.

An elephant's eleventh birthday party is marked by eleven games preceding the banquet to be eaten at the eleventh hour; but when the time to eat arrives, the birthday feast has disappeared.

America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.

The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.

The reader is invited to guess the identity of twenty-six unusual animals illustrating the letters of the alphabet.

Maggie and Will spend a busy day on the farm, making many choices in which the reader may share.

Children taking a shortcut by walking along a railroad track find excitement and danger when a train approaches.

Ollie Octopus, Bucky Beaver, Howie Hogg, and other animal characters encounter moral dilemmas involving such virtues as honesty, thoughtfulness, and trustworthiness.

Rhyming text provides clues about the nature of the animal that is speaking.

Contains color photographs of various African animals, each with a lighthearted poem that contains acrostics.