While thinking very hard about the perfect gift for her mother just before she falls asleep, Celeste is blown way up into the sky by the Wind, where she meets the Stars, the Moon, and the Sun, and when she awakens she finds exactly what she sought.
Three little mouse brothers go into the meadow to find a present for their mother but it is the littlest mouse that comes up with the most unusual gift of all.
When Cousin Clara's house is destroyed by a crocodile, she moves in with Lester and his parents and proceeds to knit a series of increasingly hideous and ill-fitting sweaters, which she presents to Lester and his parents insist that he wear.
Morris discovers one last present under the Christmas tree that is much better than his brother Victor's hockey outfit, his sister Rose's beauty kit, and his sister Betty's chemistry set.
After disappointingly receiving a lemon tree from her grandma on her birthday, a young girl doesn't know what to do with it other than care for it and wait, but her patience eventually pays off.