A farmer makes a series of trades and ends up with the dog he had at the start.

When Lucy is first adopted from a shelter she seems like the perfect puppy, but soon nothing can make her stop howling--not even a visit to a dog psychologist--until her new owner discovers that Lucy needs a stuffed friend.

An assortment of animals playing various instruments make different kinds of music.

Mother hen, mother pig, and five other animal mothers find their babies and reveal their names such as chick, piglet, and kitten on the flaps throughout this book.

Illustrations and rhyming text invite the reader to move like the animals in the zoo.