Spending a boring summer in the country with her aunt turns exciting for ten-year-old Lisa when she discovers a magic kitten.

A father and his young daughter share love and laughter as they spend time together and turn an ordinary day into a wonderful adventure.

In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.

Stamp and James are on the road again and they've brought their new friend Ace along. Stamps happy to have a new friend, but no-one has taught Ace any manners! Its up to James and Stamp to show her how to behave if only she would listen! When Daisy Ado the Cockatoo flies into the Fourby, James decides to return her to her owner. But whats that smoky smell on the wind? Theres a bushfire coming to the town of Jasper, and the local vet has his hands...

Accustomed to the daily jars of honey provided by the bees living in his yard, Benedict the bear is upset when they go on strike, but he listens to their requests for better working conditions and makes an effort to please the unhappy bees.

A young family learns to grow a garden, describing how they prepared the soil, watered their plants, dealt with the animals who invaded their garden, and how all their hard work finally paid off as they harvested vegetables and flowers.

Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text invite the reader to a community garden where potatoes close their eyes, cabbages nod their heads, and corn covers its ears to go to sleep.