Mitchell, who loves to knock things down, goes bowling for the first time with his father, but he discovers that getting a strike isn't as easy as his dad makes it look.

Papa Bear wakes up to find his son missing, and his search leads him to an opera house and a command performance.

Father and son go camping, but who is really taking care of whom?

Froggy and his father search the house for the mislaid items they will need on their bike trip.

Daddy Bear tries to show his son how to use the sled, skates, and skis Santa brought for Christmas.

When a child has a "bad speech day" at school, his father gives him a new perspective on his stuttering.

As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam.

Previously published: London : Scholastic Children's Books, 2008 under the title, A new home for Little Fox. Little Fox and his father look at other woodland animals' homes, then make a new den for themselves.

Abelardo defies his father's instructions and sets out to free a whale caught in their tangled fishing net.

In two separate stories, Martin must survive a Junior Badger overnight camping trip with his prankster best friend and help his father fix the old cranky lawnmower.