After Elizabeth's parents do not agree with her various suggestions for the perfect pet, she discovers a solution.

During Fun with Food Week in her school science class, second-grader Beetle McGrady tries to work up the courage to eat an ant.

Bear tries to catch a few winks in his lair, but all sorts of bugs are bugging him.

Rhyming text and illustrations present various reactions to encounters with such bugs as an ant, beetle, and ladybug.

Speckles the spider and Crumbs the cricket think a caterpillar is too ugly to be their friend, but Annie the ant insists that something beautiful might be inside.