Valeri Gorbachev

When someone's hat blows off in the wind, Turtle asks various animals if it belongs to one of them.

When Goat finds his friend Pig crying, he imagines all the terrible things that might have happened to cause his distress.

A little girl walking in the woods finds the house of the three bears and helps herself to their belongings.

While Bear enjoys a day at the beach, Chipmunk, who is not a beach person, does not, suffering one mishap after another all in the interests of spending time with his good friend Bear.

A pig and various other animals crowd under a tree to escape the rain.

One day Miss Bell bought a tiny kitten. He had stripes like a tiger, a tail like a tiger, and a smile like a tiger. So Miss Bell named him Tiger. Sure enough, he grew into a huge tiger, and took over the whole house, but Miss Bell loved him just the same."Cats are cats," she said cheerfully.

"Chipmunk and Bear spend a snowy day together and discover that they like to do all of the same things."--

Suggests some of the ways that animals react to fear, but when a small boy wakes from a bad dream he calls for his mommy and daddy.

As Turtle rushes through town, in a hurry to see something "red, red, red, " his neighbors wonder what it could be and hurry after him to find out.

Nelly loves to wear her swimsuit but the thought of swimming scares her, that is until Grandma, who just so happens to be a swimming champion, helps Nelly realize she has nothing to fear.