Cooperation

=**Cooperating, collaborating, and leading or following as the situation demands.**=

//Pumpkin Soup//
The Cat and the Squirrel come to blows with the Duck in arguing about who will perform what duty in preparing their pumpkin soup, and they almost lose the Duck's friendship when he decides to leave them.

//Swimmy//
Swimmy, a small black fish, finds a way to protect a school of small red fish from their natural enemies.

//Frederick//
Frederick, the poet mouse, stores up something special for the long, cold winter.

//The Little Red Hen//
The classic fable of the hen who is forced to do all the work of baking bread and of the animals who learn a bitter lesson from it.

[[image:9780590420570chinese.jpg]]//The Seven Chinese Brothers//
Seven Chinese brothers elude execution by virtue of their extraordinary individual qualities.

//A Chair for My Mother//
A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

//How My Parents Learned to Eat//
An American sailor courts a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.