All the fruits gather together and enjoy a rhyming party, but poor Orange feels left out because he does not rhyme with anything--until Apple invents a new word.

At first Ugly Fish likes being alone in his tank so much that he eats any fish that tries to share it, but when he becomes lonely, he devises a better plan.

A dog who longs for someone to play with finds out how good life is as an only pet when another dog comes to visit.

When Dot, a tiny girl who is smaller than a dust mite, meets Larry, a man so large his head is in the clouds, at a diner, they learn that their differences in size make them quite similar.

"Pandora the fox lives alone in a junk yard. She's depressed and has no contact with the outside world. Then, she rescues a blue bird. As she nurses him back to health, the bird collects seeds and trinkets for her. One day, the bird grows strong enough tofly away, but the garden seeds he brought begin to transform Pandora's landscape"--

When A discovers there are others who wake up in a different person's body every day, A gains new understanding of the extremes where love and loneliness can lead. Told from multiple perspectives.

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman...

A young guinea pig describes situations that make him miss his parents, how it feels to miss them, and what he can do to feel better.

When teen July Fielding discovers everyone in her hometown disappeared, her only chance to unravel the mystery is a series of objects, each a reminder of the people she loved most.

Lola is feeling left-out and a bit alone at school, but when magical puppy Storm appears as a fluffy black-and-white shih-tzu puppy, it looks like Lola's lonely school days will move into a magical class of their own.