When Farmer Brown goes on vacation, leaving his brother Bob in charge, Duck makes trouble by changing all his instructions to notes the animals like much better.

When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.

Disturbed by a deafening snore, Jack wakes up the family and animals one by one in search of the noisy culprit.

A duck decides to ride a bike and soon influences all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too.

Biscuit the dog meets hens, pigs, geese, and goats while visiting a farm.

Tilly drives the other barnyard animals crazy with her silliness, but after gruffly telling her to stop, they discover that they miss her old ways.

Names and describes the offspring of a cow, horse, sheep, goat, pig, chicken, goose, and turkey.

Freddy the pig does some detective work in order to solve the mystery of the missing toy train.

"A CAT'S TALE is a history of feline kind: its origins, the evolution of the relationship with their human companions, and the surprising ways in which feline history parallels that of humanity. From the prehistoric Felis (a large mammal from which all domestic cats have descended) to ancient Egyptian cat goddess, key cats of the Enlightenment to swashbuckling pirate felines and infamous American tabbies, the story of catkind is told here in its totality"--...

When Rooster's throat is too sore for him to crow, the other farm animals help both him and Farmer Ted.