When Josephina fiddles with the bus, sprinklers, and heating vent before school pictures, all her classmates become covered in dirt but Josephina saves the day when she is able to fix the photographer's camera with her fiddling.
A boy brings home various dinosaurs from the pet store, but discovers that neither the biggest nor the smallest, the softest nor the scariest, makes an ideal pet. Includes facts about dinosaurs.
Josephina Caroleena Wattasheena the First creates havoc on school picture day when she tries to figure out how things work, but she rescues the situation when the photographer's camera will not operate.
Mr. Pottle spends his days recycling the books people try to put in the town dump, and when the local children realize Mr. Pottle can not read, they set out to teach him.
Although he is too little to take out the garbage, give a piggyback ride, and perform other tasks as well as his Dad can, a young child knows that there is one thing he can do as well as anyone.