Everyone in the family tries to bribe the new baby into being born, but a kiss from Father finally does it.

First-grader Montgomery Gerald Morris enjoys an exciting year as his class acquires a pair of parakeets as pets, he loses his first tooth, and he becomes a big brother.

A young girl asks her parents to tell her again the cherished family story of her birth and adoption.

When no one is looking, Rose rolls out the door in her stroller and joins eighty-four other babies in a parade into the country.

The lives of two dogs change after a new animal, a baby, comes to their house.

Photographs depict babies from different families engaged in a variety of activities.

Braid Beard and his pirate crew return to retrieve the treasure they buried in Jeremy Jacob's backyard, but first they must help calm his baby sister, Bonney Anne, whom they awoke from her nap.

Rosa is excited when her new cousin, Benji, is born, but when Grandma wants to remove a beloved armchair, Rosa puts her foot down and insists that the chair, just like Benji, is a member of the family.

"It's almost Christmas, and baby simply cannot contain the exuberance. There are things to decorate-a tree, a gingerbread house, a doggy! There are very creative presents to make, Santa to see (must be brave), carols to sing, not to mention the big event itself"-- Provided by publisher.

Follows the development of a horse from the time its mother is pregnant until it is fully grown.