Children buy varying amounts of jelly beans with pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. Simple rhyming riddles lead children to seek out hidden objects in the photographs. Franklin the turtle overcomes a case of the jitters on his first day of school. Best friends Sparky and Eddie decide that school is fun, even if they're not in the same class. A girl describes how the maps of her room, her house, her town, her state, and her country become part of how she locates her place in the world.
Color photographs invite the viewer to guess how each object pictured is classified.
Stringing beads into necklaces with her grandmother, a girl learns how people all over the world make and use different kinds of beads. From painting and playing games to making music and joining together in friendship, alliterative verse reveals the ways in which people use their hands. Clyde the bunny is ready to learn to read and write on his first day of school, but he worries about eating lunch in the cafeteria. This collection of classic nursery rhymes that include numbers introduces children to simple math concepts like addition and subtraction. Illustrations and rhyming text provide examples of opposites like soft and hard and warm and cold, and describe how a puppy can be of these qualities at once.