Pete the pig does not want to eat his slop, but cannot go out to play with his brother and sisters until he does

"On a very hot day, Min, a budding engineer, builds a machine that draws water from a well and into a swimming pool"--

A curious little mouse decides to find out what school is all about.

Young Pip doesn't know what to do when two very different grandmothers come to baby sit, each with her own way of doing things.

The older children tell Sam he is too small to play with them, but when they need help Sam saves the day.

With the help of a young immigrant boy they meet on their crossing to America, two famous tightrope walkers manage to survive the treachery of a rival showman.

Determined that their daughter realize her musical destiny, her poor but devoted parents send her away as a baby to the Venetian "ospedale," knowing she will be raised as an orphan and will never again be allowed to return home.

Min wants to be in Ann's show, and after building a crane to remove the tree that has fallen on the stage, she gets her chance.

In the mid-1800's Maisie Ferris and her father travel to England to introduce the American phenomenon of popcorn.