Melissa Wiley

Continuing Aesop's fable, Fox and Crow tussle over pieces of cheese, but Mama, one of the three bears, outwits them both.

"Pearl lives on a ranch where her chores include collecting eggs and feeding ornery ostriches. She has three older brothers, who don't coddle her at all. And she knows a thing or two about horses, too. One day, Pearl's brothers get cushy jobs doing stunts for this new form of entertainment called "moving pictures." They're the Daredevil Donnelly Brothers, a Death-Defying Cowboy Trio. Before she knows it, Pearl has stumbled into being a stunt girl...

Roly Poly, Inchworm, Dragonfly, and Beetle all feel bored one sleepy afternoon, until Roly suggests they go to the wishing well to wish for something to do.

Follows the experiences over the course of a year of five-year-old Charlotte Tucker, who would grow up to become the grandmother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, living with her family in Roxbury, Massachusetts, during the War of 1812.

Roly finds Inch hiding in a hole to avoid a bird, but as she and other creatures dive into the same hole to be safe, the hiding place becomes more and more dangerous.

Roly and her friends try to identify an object she finds in the grass, but from their different perspectives it could be a tunnel, a hill, or even a snake.

Ten-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, experiences the larger world outside tiny Glencaraid, Scotland, when she goes to visit her married sister in Perth.