"On the first day of school, vivacious Amanda the Panda meets anxious Alfred the Alligator. But when Amanda decides that Alfred would be the perfect best friend for her, the difference in their temperaments leads to hurt feelings"--

In order to ensure her popularity, Camilla Cream always does what is expected, until the day arrives when she no longer recognizes herself.

Although she dresses differently from the other girls and does things which are unusual, Velvet eventually teaches her classmates that even an outsider has something to offer.

Sunday Chutney's family moves often to different countries, so she has found imaginative ways to cope with being the new girl at school.

When Otter starts a school, Teddy becomes sad because the other students are all good at something and it seems he is not.

Tempest and Tally Temple, mirror twins inseparable since birth, are now thirteen and being pulled apart by the same force that has separated other twins in their family, but Tally is determined to fight back.

Relates the misadventures of Marigold, who does not agree with anyone.

"Big, small, curly, straight, loud, quiet, smooth, wrinkly. Lovely explores a world of differences that all add up to the same thing: we are all lovely!"--

A child's two grandfathers relate their boyhood experiences of the "terrible blizzard of 1888."

Encourages every boy to embrace all of the things that make him unique, and to be curious, brave, kind, thoughtful, and more.