"A boy and his pet dragon find the joy in being helpful to others"--Provided by publisher.

Carl helps a little kitten that is stuck in a tree.

Katie wants to be helpful, and so she starts making dinner on her own.

Nora is the first to notice a very large octopus on top of her apartment building, which proves to be a very good neighbor but leaves all too soon.

"There is nothing sweeter than arriving at the playground, seeing it empty, and knowing you have it all to yourself-the silent comfort of playing alone. Maggie is overjoyed to have that solitude to make her Salad Pie. But then Herbert saunters over and wants to play too. "I'm making salad. Salad Pie. And don't you touch it!" Herbert just wants to help, even though Maggie makes it clear she won't let him.Then her imaginary pie takes a spill, and she...

Maggie, Hamilton, and the Ferocious Beast help a stubborn rabbit dig up a gigantic carrot.

Squirrel can't think of a New Year's resolution until she realizes that by helping her friends, she's made one after all.

Told in rhyme, a bear settles on the narrator's porch, and is soon followed by many other woodland friends, until the porch collapses under the weight--but bear and his friends repair the damage and almost everybody is invited to lunch.

Beatrice "Bumble B." Flinn loves the farmers' market, where her parents sell honey, and this time she is going to help out at her friend Kalia's family flower stand, but Bumble B is rather clumsy and easily distracted, so things do not go as well as she hoped--but in the end she finds a way to put her skills as an artist to good use.

Tudley is a turtle who adopts the habits of other animals because he doesn't know he can't do what he does.