Zena and Zach and the sack of gold -- Using subtraction / Allan Jacobs and Leland Jacobs -- The swineherd / Hans Christian Andersen -- Sometimes Arthur is choosy / Bernard Waber -- Monkey / Sylvia Read -- The monkey and you / Julie Holder -- Advice -- Ant / X.J. Kennedy -- Tiger / John Gardner -- Tiger / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Who to pet and who not to / X.J. Kennedy -- The porcupine / Karla Kuskin -- Cockroach / Yoshiko Uchida -- A bug / Karla Kuskin -- Animal jokes -- Somersaults and headstands / Kathleen Fraser -- The skipping pot -- If we walked on our hands / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers -- The bridge over the River Clarinette / Pierre Gamarra -- Ali Baba and Princess Farrah / Johanna Hurwitz -- Toy Tik Ka / Charlotte Pomerantz -- Peculiar / Eve Merriam -- Jump rope rhyme / Charlie Meehan -- Bringing news from home -- Beyond expectations / Norton Juster -- The knee-high man / Julius Lester -- You-tu / Charlotte Pemerantz -- Reflection / Myra Cohn Livingston.

Down with President Stomach -- Jamboree / David McCord -- A peanut butter sandwich / Beverly Cleary -- Mighty Mikko / Parker Fillmore -- Fifteen seconds / Michael Rosen -- Learning / Judith Viorst -- The emperor's prized possession -- Banjo tune / William Jay Smith -- What is purple / Mary O'Neill -- How the camel got his hump / Rudyard Kipling -- The three sillies / Joseph Jacobs -- A good buy -- Hershele gets a meal -- Ruby / Florence Parry Heide -- In which Tigger comes to the forest and has breakfast / A.A. Milne -- At the airport / Lois Lowry -- There's a hole in my bucket -- I'm Tipingee, she's Tippingee, we're Tipingee, too / Diane Wolkstein -- Running the gauntlet / Kathleen Fraser -- The Thursday call / Betsy Byars -- The common egret / Paul Fleishman -- Fooling the king -- The Wozzit / Jack Prelutsky -- Dragons and Giants / Arnold Lobel -- The land of the Bumbley Boo / Spike Milligan -- The greedy man's week / Bernice Schenk de Regniers -- When the sky is like lace / Elinor Lander Horwitz -- My favorite word / Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr. -- The last story.