Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day, he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests. -- From book jacket.

A counting book in rhyme presents various marine animals and their children, from a mother manatee and her little calf one to a mother octopus and her little babies ten. Numerals are hidden in each illustration.

On the first day of school, a young panda learns about the special things his animal classmates can do.

Using various animals as examples, this rhyming picture book explores what makes them the same and what makes them different.

Bear and his friends persuade a bashful owl to play with them.

Bobo the chimp seeks hugs among various jungle animals and their young, but he does not get what he wants until he is reunited with his own parent.

Even though Gracie the hen hides her eggs and Father Rabbit insists he is not the Easter Rabbit, the farm bunnies and Granny's grandchildren all have a wonderful Easter.

Sleepy jungle animals prepare for naptime on a nice breezy day in the jungle but, when they each promise the other they will wake them up in exactly 10 minutes, who will keep awake to do it?

Baby Owl meets Rabbit, Squirrel, and Fox in the woods and is upset when they tell him how cute he is but when Mama tells him that he is not cute, surprisingly his attitude changes.

When Farmer Brown goes on vacation, leaving his brother Bob in charge, Duck makes trouble by changing all his instructions to notes the animals like much better.