Nils wants to grow up and be a cowboy, but when he wears the beautiful knitted woolen stockings his grandmother has sent him from Norway, his school friends tease him for being different and a sissy.
The life of George Washington in story and pictures up to the time he became President. His boyhood, and his participation first in the affairs of his native Virginia, and then of all the colonies, are portrayed against the backdrop of the times.
Follows a Sami boy and girl who live at the top of Norway, in Lapland, on their long trip with the reindeer herd down from the mountains of snow to the village where they go to school.
When Ola, a Norwegian boy, dons his skis in search of adventure, he meets new friends, joins a wedding party, encounters a howling dragon, and learns folklore from fishermen as they pull codfish from the icy waters.
On the way to market the old lady becomes so carried away by the visions of the wealth her egg money will bring that she scrambles eggs and illusions of wealth in a foolish mishap.
