While two kittens copy everything their mother does, their brother naps.

Various baby animals ask their mothers to carry them.

From a wrinkly baby rhino to a kitten's cute paws, mothers love their babies just as they are. Back matter includes photos and factoids about each featured animal.

Invites the reader to see the sun, bright as a flower, a flower on a hill that looks like a lion, a lion that dreams of flowers as big as the sun, and more.

As other animals walk, gallop or trot by, a hungry crocodile lies quietly in the sand, listening for a very special sound from her nesting place.

When Michael and Mia hear about an abandoned kitten at the animal shelter, they volunteer to take Otis in until they can find him a permanent home.

As he hops along a little rabbit wonders what it would be like to be green as grass, tall as fir trees, hard as rocks, and flutter like butterflies.

Miss Spider worries that she is not a good mother when one of her recently hatched spiderlings goes off to find where an egg belongs.

"A baby elephant's birth is celebrated by its loving herd"--

A baby fox anticipates the time when he can go out alone, but first his parents must teach him the ways of the wilderness.