While trying to escape from a wolf, four frightened chickens keep getting themselves into the very predicaments they are trying to avoid.

Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness, and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.

Scaredy Squirrel is afraid to sleep at night for fear he will dream of dragons, ghosts, vampire bats, and polka-dot monsters, so he makes an elaborate plan to avoid sleeping.

Dunkum tries to hide his fear from the other Cul-de-sac Kids when they spend the night at their teacher's house.

At bedtime a boy confronts the nightmare in his closet and finds him not so terrifying after all.

"Little monsters head to Fright School to learn the art of scaring trick-or-treaters"--

A young girl with appendicitis recounts her strange and scary trip to the hospital, and the nine times she cried--and a few times when she did not.

Even though he loves water, Sergio the penguin is afraid to swim in the deep water until he learns how.

Lance Cottonwood is the best and brightest in his class, but when it is time for his final exam, he is afraid to fall like the rest of the leaves.

Scaredy Squirrel has a wild adventure when he ventures to the beach to get a seashell.