Little by little, can by can, Mr. Gillie, the trash man, cleans up his town.

Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm.

Longing for adventure, intrepid Louise leaves her comfortable nest and goes to sea.

When Mary Lennox, the unloved, contrary, and spoiled ten-year-old, is found alone in the deserted house after her parents' death, she is sent to live with an uncle whom she has never known. In Yorkshire, England, at his secluded Misselthwaite Manor, Martha Sowerby, a warm-hearted chambermaid, introduces Mary to the late Mrs. Craven and her private walled garden, which has been locked for years. Published more than a hundred years ago, The Secret Garden...

A shepherd shears his sheep, cards and spins the wool, weaves and dyes the cloth, and sews a beautiful new red cloak.

Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.