A sad princess is made happy again by a humble, word-loving bird.

"Explores simple actions and concepts that children learn as they start to socialize and communicate"--

"Sophie's parents tell her to say 'Hello,' 'Thank-you,' and 'Goodbye,' but the words stick like glue in Sophie's mouth and won't come out"--

Despite a language barrier, a dog and cat fall in love with the help of a buried trombone.

The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to an African rainforest, where the siblings encounter gorillas and learn to communicate with them.

Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pegasi, Princess Sylvi is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own pegasus, on her twelfth birthday, but the closeness of their bond becomes a threat to the status quo and possibly to the safety of their two nations.

Ella and Rowan journey into the jungle to find their missing cousin Jack, using their inherited powers to communicate with animals to help guide their way.

When her mother's reappearance in the Syrena world turns the two kingdoms -- Poseidon and Triton -- against one another, Emma must risk everything she loves and reveal herself -- and her Gift -- to save a people she's never known.

Spencer Plain's parents are prisoners of Pam, who runs an illegal ring of rare animal trading, and they are being held at the Hidden Rock Zoo, target of the next rescue mission the bears of Bearhaven are planning--but when the rescue starts to go wrong, and he and Aldo are cut off from the team, it will take some quick thinking and serious stealth to save the mission.

When Papa goes away for a little while, his family tries to cope with the separation by adopting four dogs and a cat.