Jim Panzee wakes up in a bad mood one beautiful day, but he keeps denying he is grumpy even as his friends give advice for feeling better.

A young chimp describes a variety of emotions he experiences.

When her human guardian goes on a business trip, Ricki, an orphaned chimpanzee infant, adopts Henri, a shaggy dog, as her "mother."

Luc is an orphan, living in debt slavery in Gabon, until he meets a Professor who claims to be studying chimpanzees, and they head off into the jungle--but when the Professor disappears, Luc has to fend for himself and join forces with the chimps to save their forest.

Okomi learns from his mother to strip the leaves from a twig and to use it for catching termites for breakfast.

A young chimpanzee describes the different ways his mother shows her love for him; and how he loves her in return.

Not ready to stop playing at bedtime, little Bobo the chimp escapes over and over to play with his jungle friends, but when it finally starts to get dark, he finds himself all alone with no idea how to get home.

A four-year-old boy finds it hard to believe that a baby is growing inside Mama's belly.

A young chimp declares his love for all kinds of books, from funny books and scary books to song books and strange books.

"Frances Stenzel was just trying to prove her scientific worth to her parents ... instead, she reawakened her great-grandfather's secret and most terrible invention. Before it can destroy the town, she sets off after it ... and she'll have to face ... angry locals and an unexpected friendship ... while the trail for the monster goes cold and time is running out before her science career, and the city itself, are doomed forever"--