Gossie and Gertie are best friends and everywhere Gossie goes, Gertie goes too--except when she doesn't, and sometimes that's even better. On board pages.

Jamaica hates wearing hand-me-down boots when her friend Brianna has pink fuzzy ones.

Holly wants to play in the snow and needs her red books, so she and her cat Jasper search the house for anything red.

School shopping is no fun for Dylan--until he spots boots decorated with poison-dart frogs. They even glow in the dark! He can't wait to show them off in class. But then a kid exclaims: "Ms. Kory, that boy's wearing girl boots." Suddenly, everyone's laughing at Dylan and the boots don't seem so cool anymore. Will he ever wear them again? A timely story about staying true to yourself and defying stereotypes.