A proper bulldog raised in a poodle family and a tough poodle raised in a bulldog family meet one day in the park.

Princess Penelope Pineapple stays busy flying planes, exercising, and gardening, always wearing pants, and so when disaster strikes at the Pineapple Ball, Penny is prepared.

One day, amidst the usual chirps, tweets, and caws, a little brown bird decides to try singing a new song and sets off an interesting reaction.

Lemmings all look alike, sound alike, and act alike, except for Larry who uses his independent mind to teach the other group how to use their brains and stop making terrible group decisions.

Marisol McDonald, a biracial, nonconformist, soccer-playing pirate-princess with brown skin and red hair, celebrates her uniqueness.

"Theodora is a perfectly normal duck. She may swim with a teacup balanced on her head and stay north when the rest of the ducks fly south for the winter, but there's nothing so odd about that. Chad, on the other hand, is one strange bird. He looks at the stars at night. He swims in crazy circles instead of straight lines. His house is a mess. It's a good thing Chad has a normal friend like Theodora to set a good example for him. But who exactly is...

Jasper, an impatient fox, and Ollie, a slow-moving sloth, head to the pool on a summer day, each taking their own unique path.

Represents a variety of families, some big and some small, some with only one parent and some with two moms or dads, some quiet and some noisy, but all alike in some ways and special no matter what.

It's Ginger's birthday, and she has to invite all the girls in her class to her party, including Lyla Browning--even though she doesn't want to. Lyla isn't like the other girls: she smells like old leaves, doesn't talk much, and once brought a tarantula to school for show-and-tell.

Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues, in a story inspired by the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s.