Max is bored with school until his uncle gives him a bag of magic seeds for his birthday, which Max spreads around the city, and soon the city is filled with wildflowers. When his class gets to go on field trips to pick, draw, and study the flowers, Max becomes the most popular boy in the school.

Lena liked to sit in her mother's garden and watch the chickens. But something is missing in this happy group of hens...a sweet little chick! How fortunate that plump little Alma had just laid an egg. But to Lena's surprise, Alma does not seem interested in hatching it. Lena makes a snap decision and attempts to surprise everyone by hatching the chick herself. However, hatching an egg is more difficult than Lena thinks, and the journey from egg to...

Fritz, who longs to have a pet, captures a fish after the river floods his neighborhood, but must decide how long he can keep him in the apartment bathtub.