As Katie, her parents, and friends celebrate Independence Day with a parade, games, a picnic, and fireworks, the few things that go wrong do not interfere with their fun.

A small-town family celebrates the Fourth of July by attending a parade, having a picnic, and watching fireworks. Interspersed throughout the pages are patriotic songs and traditional rhymes.

Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy enter their pets in the Fourth of July costume competition, but just as they complete making Polly the pony into Thomas Jefferson, and Pal the dog into the Declaration of Independence, the animals run away, and the children must find them before it is too late to win the prize.

A Chinese American child fears that the food her parents are preparing to sell on the Fourth of July will not be eaten.

Spectators wait to see what will come next as the watch the town's Fourth of July parade.

Corduroy and his friends celebrate the Fourth of July by having a picnic, marching in a parade, and watching fireworks.

Fighting over a Fourth of July contest for the best decorated mailbox threatens to tear apart the Cul-de-sac Kids.