Meindert De Jong

Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home. A young Chinese boy struggles to return to his family after his sampan is washed ashore on enemy territory during the Japanese occupation.

A little boy moves to the country with his family and gets a new hat which floats down a stream, gets chewed by a horse, and protects a skunk's home from the rain.

The children of the Dutch fishing village of Shora set out to bring the storks back to the town.

A stray dog earns a home for himself by protecting a little red hen and her chicks from a preying hawk.

Chronicles the occurences on a young boy's journey to visit an aunt and how these events affect his return journey and arrival at his home on Peppermint Street.