Introduces the characteristics of puppies in brief text and illustrations.

Grover plays a game of hide and seek with the reader.

Presents five brief stories in which the baker makes a loaf of talking bread, Mr. Fixit is finally stumped, Mr. Rabbit learns the consequences of absent-mindedness, three sitters make fudge, and Tanglefoot takes a spill.

Depicts the hardships of the pioneers as they made their way westward from Missouri across the prairie and over the mountains to the Pacific coast.