Sutton, Jane

Backyard chickens usually give families nice, fresh eggs, but Trudy won't get off her eggs at all, and she pecks Sylvia and Grandma when they try to reach under her.

Ten-year-old Cindy, constantly embarrassed by her "weird" parents, finally learns to accept and appreciate their uniqueness.

For the jungle dance, Bertha, a hippopotamus, invents an eyecatching outfit only to discover that her date, Fred, invited her for her plain old everyday self.

Sadie must convince her friend Mortimer that eating cauliflower will not bring him bad luck.