Through a misunderstanding, Junie B. thinks that her new baby brother is really a baby monkey, and her report of this news creates excitement and trouble in her kindergarten class.

Biscuit, a young puppy, is eager to meet the new baby but must wait until nap time is over.

Froggy hoped for a brother to play with so he is disappointed with his new baby sister, Pollywogilina, but only until she is old enough to start learning from her big brother.

Kristina is determined to defeat her addiction to crack in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.

Harry's older brother, unhappy that the new baby seems to have taken over, dreams up imaginative ways to get rid of him.

Although she is tired of the responsibility of being the oldest sister, Felicity realizes how much her family means to her when a carriage accident puts her pregnant mother in danger. Includes a section on babies in the late 1700s.

A grandfather dreams of all the things he will do with his new grandchild.

Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.

Five talented New Hampshire sisters try to care for a baby that one of them has carved out of granite.

Rhyming text compares babies born in different places and in different circumstances, but they all share the commonality of ten little fingers and ten little toes.