A mother dog tries to teach her pup how to bark, and is surprised at why he wasn't learning.

Illustrations and simple text describe the ways various animals communicate, such as "Owls hoot, " "Pigs squeal, " and "Bees buzz."

Names animals which don't hoot, buzz, squeak, roar, or quack and also names creatures which do make these sounds.

Introduces a variety of sounds that are made by animals.

While a young girl waits for the delivery of a hot pizza, she provides the appropriate animal sounds for a variety of pretend animal pizza deliverers.

When the children go back to school, the animals on the farm are bored, so they go into the library in town trying to find something to do.

As one animal sits on another in an accumulating progression, the reader learns the sounds each animal makes.

"One day a tiny cricket is born and meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. The tiny cricket tries to respond, but there is no sound. The quiet cricket then makes his way into the world, meeting one insect after another, each of whom greets the little cricket with a cheery hello - the hum of a bee, the whirr of a dragonfly, the whisper of a praying mantis. The cricket rubs his wings together each time, but nothing happens, not a sound. Until the...

When a cow loses her moo, she searches to see if another animal in the barn has it.

When the wind blows so hard that it blows the quack right out of the duck, the oink out of the pig and so on, Bonnie Bumble works hard to get each animal's sound back where it belongs.