Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby take time off from napping to play on the Yankee Doodle Dandies baseball team.

To relieve the boredom of a long, hot summer, Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby join their fun-loving neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, and her mischievous dog Zeke on an adventurous sightseeing boat cruise.

As Old Man Fookwire's birds prepare to migrate south for the winter, those darn squirrels decide to follow.

Things are difficult for twelve-year-old Jan and her mother after her father's death, and when it turns out that her beloved horse needs an operation, Jan reluctantly gets money from an elderly woman whom she has befriended.

Reluctantly, Mr. Putter and his cat, Tabby, agree to go ballroom dancing with Mrs. Teaberry and her dog, Zeke.

Maddy, an elderly woman, returns home to find a strange boy waiting for her, and she tells him the story about when she fell in love with a man named Feather, who put aside his old existence to live with her in a cottage and conceived a child with her--who was never to be born--and left, which caused Maddy to follow him across the sea.

"An exhausted Santa wishes for youth and ends up becoming a baby days before Christmas"--

When Ali's aged great-grandmother, with whom he lives, tells him the one thing she wishes for that she never did was to see the sea, a two day walk away across the desert, he sets out with a pail to make the journey for her.

Although he would rather be sipping an ice cream soda, Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby attend a cooking class with Mrs. Teaberry and her dog Zeke, where they learn 100 ways to cook beans.

James has a bunch of balloons, each of which holds a special memory, but as his grandfather ages and loses his own balloons, James discovers that he is gaining new ones.