After explaining why reading to young children is so valuable, Butler suggests the best ways to go about this for children from one to five years old, listing readily available books for each age
O'Reilly is a much-loved teddy bear who lives with a little boy, a rabbit, a monkey and a furry brown mouse. But by night he dreams of real bears in caves among the rocks. One day he runs away and goes to live with the real bears who live in the forest - but O'Reilly discovers that real bears are really pretty tough and wild.
Relates the story of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, from their founding to the present, highlighting notable players as well as the humanitarian efforts of the Globetrotter organization.