In the first of two easy-to-read stories a turtle and a snail make some friends with the help of a skateboard. In the second a mouse and a snail learn, through trial and error, how to be friends.
While gathered around the wood stove in winter, Old Turtle tells his friends unbelievable baseball stories of Cleo Octopus, Melvin Moose, Clara Kangaroo, and Randy Squirrel.