Left on their own in seventeenth-century London, three impoverished children draw upon all their resources to stay together and make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father.

Tired of caring for his new dog, a spoiled boy gives him to a young girl who discovers that the dog can sing.

A lonely boy is found and reared by a hermit in the wilderness of the Tennessee mountains in the 1880s.

Introduces the tree as "the biggest plant that grows" and explains the life cycle of an apple tree.