Rhyming text and illustrations featuring the letters A to Z follow Patty as she plants pumpkins and watches them grow.

Just how do mail carriers manage to deliver all the billions of special cards and gifts sent out at Christmastime? With help from aardvark angels, of course! Harold's trumpet wakes the sleepy aardvarks just in time to swoop down to earth and fly, drive, ski, sail, or float holiday greetings and packages all over the globe, even to the most remote places. As an extra treat, one child's special deliveries can be followed throughout the illustrations....

A duck marvels at how wonderful it is to be a duck, with feathers, webbed feet, and wings that can fly, from the time he is hatched until he becomes a dad.

After a series of mishaps involving crumbs, drips, splatters, and spills, the neat and tidy house that Mom left is a mess.

Farmer Brown and all his animals are ready for sleep, but a tiny whiny humming sound keeps them awake.

Ten witches take off on a single broom but when they have had enough of sharing, they drop out one by one.