From hoping to caring to peace to sharing, little ones convey different ways to find joy in the everyday.

"When etiquette coach Ms. Picklepop teeters off her stool and spills a bucket of paint, a creature emerges. Not a scary one, or an evil one, or anything of the sort. Instead, what comes alive is ... BLURP! She'll have to carry on with her lesson, despite Blurp's many, messy distractions. But paint splotches and burps aren't all that disrupt Ms. Picklepop's decorous class. Perhaps through an unlikely friendship, Ms. Picklepop will learn a thing or...

People don't bite people. It's nasty and it's rude! A friend will never bite a friend. Biting is for food! Illustrations and rhyming text urge children to use their teeth for biting food, not their friends or relatives.

A child is encouraged to find their own voice, and to say something, even though it may, at times, be difficult to speak out.

The Scallywags, a family of lazy, shiftless, mischief-making wolves, annoy all the other animals to the point where they quit getting invited to eat, play, or join in other activities, but when the wolves decide to improve themselves, they go too far in the other direction--until a full moon appears.

"Torn between her fear of the bully on the school playground and her sympathy for her classmate, a girl must make a difficult choice"--

"Toddler Oliver says "no" to everything-from brushing his teeth and cleaning to swinging on the swings-until his cousin Jess comes to visit and Oliver discovers all that is possible when you say "yes.""--

Ben rides his new bicycle the very, very long way to school but Adrian Underbite, perhaps the world's largest third-grader, takes the bike anyway and later, when Ben finds Adrian in trouble, he must decide whether or not to help the larcenous bully.

Betty Bunny's mother takes her and her siblings to a toy store where each is allowed to pick out one item, but Betty refuses to choose just one and throws a tantrum when she learns the alternative is to get nothing.

Of course Betty Bunny didn't do it - the Tooth Fairy did! Or, at least that's who the irrepressible preschooler uses as her scapegoat as she tries to wriggle her way out of trouble. As usual, her loving family rallies to help Betty figure out why "crying wolf" can be just as much trouble for her as actually lying in this third title in the popular series, once again delivered with verve and charm by Katherine Kellgren.