Catherine Stock

Monsieur Monmouton takes his farm animals to Paris, France, for a holiday.

A brother and sister spend Easter with their mother in a little cabin on the lake.

Tommy is reluctant to dress up and go out on Halloween until his mother convinces him that there are no real monsters, ghosts, or witches.

Kukamba loves helping her grandmother decorate her mud home in a dusty Zimbabwe village, but when the annual rains partially destroy all her art work, Kukamba learns to see the goodness of the rains.

On Christmas morning a stray cat slips into the house through an open kitchen window, and the children decide to keep him, hidden in an old basket under the stairs.

Monsieur Monmouton and his dog Cabot fly from France to New York City in pursuit of his farm animals, who are taking a vacation to see such sights as Blooming Dells and MOOMA.