As Thanksgiving Day approaches, Thelonius Turkey becomes worried when Felicia the farmer starts to fatten him up and pluck his feathers.

All Julius Anteater wants is some ants for lunch, but when people misunderstand his intentions, he winds up frightening a school bus driver, being thrown out of the zoo, and chased by the police.

When all the punctuation marks in Mr. Wright's class decide to take a vacation, the students discover just how difficult life can be without them.

An author forgets to give her manuscript to an illustrator who begins to paint whatever she herself wants, making the author a character in the book, along with a meddlesome duck and other creatures.

When Mr. Wright makes his students study word endings on the last day of school, even the suffixes rebel.

Rhyming text describes the many sounds of the city.