A simple explanation of how, when Sam catches a cold at school, his body fights the germs to make him better.
Readers view photographs of different objects, first through a hole, and then in their entirety.
Rhyming verse tells the story of aviatrix Bessie Coleman, who in 1921 became the first African American to earn a pilot's license. As he wanders all over Nantucket trying to find a place to live, Comet the cat uses up eight of his nine lives before finding a place to call home. When Gertie teaches an alligator to dance, their act becomes famous worldwide. When Arthur attempts to liven up a story about his puppy Pal for a school assignment, he ends up with a story set to a country and western song about an elephant from outer space. A boy named Tom Tate meets Wilbur and Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, witnesses the invention of the first airplane, and becomes the second person ever to fly.