Two crows count from one to ten and back down again. Simple text describes the many different forms of and uses for water, from rain for the earth to lakes for swimming. Cheerful pictures and simple questions about the weather invite children to think about the four seasons. Wooden shoes, snow shoes, and dancing shoes are some types of footwear pictured in this photoessay. Arthur the aardvark challenges his younger sister D. W. to prove that she really can read.
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.