Ruthie loves tiny things and when she finds a tiny camera on the playground she is very happy, but after she lies and says the camera belongs to her, nothing seems to go right.

Best friends Pammy and Wyatt argue because Pammy always gets her way, but after shooting baskets with her older brother, she is ready to give Wyatt a turn.

Merl and Jasper, a cat and a dog in Ann's drawing, leap off the paper to search for something to eat in the pages of various fairy tales.

Shows how to count from one to twenty and twenty-five, fifty, seventy-five, and one hundred using American Sign Language.

A younger brother offers detailed advice on how to annoy older sisters.

When her absent-minded inventor father suddenly remembers that he has five sisters, nine-year-old Harriet Bean, who has never heard of them before, determines to find her unknown aunts so that the unfinished family portrait can be completed.

Harriet helps her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate cheating at the racetrack by disguising herself as a jockey.

In three separate stories, children help adults solve problems related to food, first by saving a restaurant from being shut down, second by untangling a mess in a spaghetti factory, and finally by selling donuts to raise funds for a stolen car.