Pinduli, a young striped hyena, is hurt by the unkind words of Dog, Lion, and Zebra, but her clever trick in return promotes her clan's survival and spreads harmony throughout the Savannah. Includes back matter notes about hyenas and other animals of the African Savannah.

A lonely cockroach named Crickwing has a creative idea that saves the day for the leaf-cutter ants when their fierce forest enemies attack them.

Trupp the fuzzhead encounters the world of humans.

When Trupp is poisoned, Little Yau and some of the other Fuzzheads don clothes and shoes and venture into the world of humans, searching for the herb they need to make a cure.

After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.

A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives. Una joven pitón no quiere crecer para convertirse en una víbora lenta y aburrida, como las viejas víboras que ve en la selva tropical donde vive.

When the adorable fruit bat Stellaluna is separated from her mother, she is adopted by a family of birds, but soon finds that she just can't fit in. Her playmates like to sleep at night; she wants to fly. They whistle and sing; she doesn't even have a beak! But just when it seems like she'll always be an outsider, Stellaluna makes an amazing discovery. Now she'll learn to cherish the things that make her different from everyone else. And she'll see...