"A celebration of the joy and comfort to be found in alone time and the joy and comfort that a friend can bring"-- Provided by publisher.

Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.

Text and illustrations describe some of the special places that one can go to be quiet and alone and to imagine, such as a woods, a seashore, a library, or inside oneself.

Oliver is different. He enjoys his solitude. He likes playing with his friends, who are puppets, stuffed animals, and other toys. With his rich imagination, Oliver's day is never dull. But maybe toys don't always give a boy everything he needs. Maybe he needs another kind of companion. Will Oliver discover a way to be, well, different? When his tennis ball rolls across the lawn into the yard of the girl next door, he just might be surprised.

In the mountains of Peru, friends Hector the bear and Hummingbird the hummingbird spend most of their time together, doing the same things, and Hector has had just about enough of it--or has he? Includes a list of animals hidden in the illustrations.

"With encouragement from her energetic dog, a hesitant child tries swimming at the beach in her own time and discovers a colorful world beneath the surface in this beautifully illustrated picture book."-- Provided by publisher.

"Quand un jour l'argent vient à manquer pour payer les factures et le loyer, Isabelle et sa famille doivent déménager à l'autre bout de la ville. Isabelle commence à se sentir... invisible. Et elle s'aperçoit qu'elle n'est pas seule à se sentir invisible. Elle décide alors de se rendre utile et petit à petit, les choses changent... Une histoire touchante sur l'importance de vraiment voir ceux qui nous entourent, et de comprendre...

Rabbit, Duck, and Big Bear, who do everything together, discover the importance of taking time to spend by themselves.

Moopy the underground monster lives alone and likes it that way--but when another monster knocks at her door she discovers that friendship is important.

Bear likes playing piano for all the other animals, but they keep asking him for more, and Bear has trouble setting boundaries and expressing that he needs time for himself until he finds sympathetic Zebra.