Ferdinand the bull likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls. Includes read-along disc in English or Spanish.

It is when the fix-it man is trying to repair the television and her parents are trying to entertain her that Emma becomes so interested in reading, she no longer cares about TV.

Ronald Morgan is a second-grader whose day goes from bad to worse, beginning with a dropped pencil and a bad nickname, but ends on a happy note when he discovers that he can read.