A) Stanley and his friends have a picnic and learn about ants. B) Stanley learns about teeth.
A.) The electricity at Stanley's house goes off, right in the middle of his favorite game show. Not happy at all about that, Stanley turns to the Great Big Book of Everything to learn about Electric Eels - so maybe they can bring back the power. B.) Stanley gets a new scooter, but doesn't want to wear the protective gear with it, fearing everyone will laugh at him. He then learns about Rhinos, who have built-in padding and protection.
A) Dennis wishes he could fly, and gets rather depressed when he realizes that his dream will never come true. Stanley wants to cheer up his best friend, so he turns to the Great Big Book of Everything to learn about an amazing fish species called the Flying Fish. B) Stanley is afraid to try new foods when he is invited to his friend Jane's house. But soon he learns to like the Chinese food learns about the Giant Panda.
A) Lester and Stanley argue about dragons. B) Stanley learns about goats when he wants an animal to help his Dad out in the garden.
A) Stanley loses The Great Big Book of Everything. B) Stanley learns about roosters.
A) The kids visit the aquarium and learn about mermaids. B) Dennis and Stanley learn about pelicans.
The kids are invited to a Halloween party at Grandma Griff's house. Later, Stanley, his friends and Dennis then look into The Great Big Book of Everything to learn about bats.
Stanley tries to silence a woodpecker that is distracting is father from working on an important comic; Harry is sprayed by a skunk when Stanley absentmindedly lets him off-leash during a camping trip.
A) Stanley learns how mockingbirds mock other birds. B) Lionel needs someway for his cardboard car to run without pedals or a motor. Stanley thinks about animals who are useful for powerful transportation.
Proud as a Peacock: Stanley is disappointed one day when it seems like his family and friends all have special talents to demonstrate, but he has nothing. He takes solace in his animal friends, sure that animals never show off. Dennis, however, shows him that the peacock is quite the show-off of the animal world. Dances with Flamingos: Mimi is practicing for a performance for a ballet class, but is having trouble standing on one leg. Her friends all find it difficult as well and wonder just how anyone can do it. Realizing that flamingos spend much of their time standing on one leg, they decide to look up flamingos in The Great Big Book of Everything to find out just how this feat is accomplished.
A) When the Griffs go out and spend a day at the beach, Stanley forgets to put on sunscreen, and eventually gets sunburned, and turns red (like a lobster). Since he can't go back in the sun, he stays under a beach umbrella, and he and Dennis learn about lobsters. B) Dad and Lionel are building a bookcase together, and Stanley wants to help. Unfortunately, he's too little to use any of the tools his dad and Lionel are using. So he looks in the Great Big Book of Everything, and hopes to learn about carpentry from a Sawfish and a Hammerhead Shark.
Stanley, Mimi and Marci hope that learning about how spiders weave webs will help them weave potholders for their moms; Stanley and Marci want to be like pigs, thinking that they get to roll around in mud all day.
A) A raven steals Lionel's camera. B) Stanley learns about fireflies.
Mysterious Moe: When Elsie accidentally kicks a ball into a neighbor's yard, she and the kids are reluctant to retrieve it when Mimi and Marci say that it's the home of "Mysterious Moe." Moe is apparently a strange man who prefers to be alone and has the power to turn people invisible. Everyone is scared of the story except Dennis, who is sure that the story is just a rumor. He has everyone venture into The Great Big Book of Everything to meet a mysterious animal (an orangutan) to show them that sometimes we only fear things because they're unknown to us. Spelling Bee Situation: After Mimi becomes the spelling bee champion of Ms. Diaz's class, Ms. Diaz agrees to a competition with Mr. Bartalone's class. Pleased to know a champion speller, Marci and Stanley ask Mimi to help them practice, but soon find that Mimi's championship status has gone to her head. As she bosses them around, they begin to despair of getting any real practice done. When Mrs. Griff suggests that Mimi is behaving like a "queen bee," the expression sparks an interest in learning more about real bees. Inside The Great Big Book of Everything, Mimi learns something surprising about these buzzy creatures.
Marci irritates Stanley and his friends when she tries to be the only leader for a game of "follow-the-leader"; Stanley and his friends have trouble putting together a jigsaw puzzle featuring a picture of several zebras.
A) Stanley learns about hummingbirds. B) Stanley learns about koalas.
A) Stanley learns that sea horses are great Dads and learns to appreciate his own stay-at-home Dad in the process. B) Stanley meets his cousin Max at a family reunion picnic and discovers that Max loves animals too.
A) When Lester's little sister starts screaming for no reason, his mom explains that she's just having a tantrum. Lester and the others want to know more about tantrums, so they get out the great big book of everthing and learn about one animal that has the biggest tantrums of all; the Tasmanian Devil. B) Stanley and his friends don't want to wear their life vest when they go on a trip to the beach. So Dennis teaches them how sea otters use their fur as safety when they're in the water.
Going-Away Goose: Stanley and his friends are excited about winter vacation, but Lester is upset about having to miss out on all the fun. He's visiting his grandparents in Florida and won't be back until after the holiday. Stanley, Lester, Mimi and Marci learn together that Lester's situation resembles that of the Canada goose. Time to Climb!: Stanley joins Lester's family on a trip to a state park. When Mr. Goldberg tells them that they're going to climb Mount Honeyhut, Stanley and Lester are sure that there's no way they can make it. Then, they learn about the ox from The Great Big Book of Everything and realize that they might have a chance if they emulate this animal's behavior.
A) Stanley tries to get super vision. B) Stanley learns to feel good about himself.
A) Stanley's class goes to the farm, but Stanley, Lester, Marci and Mimi wander off and get lost. B) Roadrunners help Stanley to learn that energy from food is important when it comes to physical activity.
A) Stanley and friends learn about X-rays. B) Stanley and Lester decide to live in Stanley's treehouse.
A) Stanley misses the ice cream truck and now he's the only one without ice cream. He really wants some, so Dennis tells Stanley about cows and how they are involved in the making of ice cream. B) Stanley doesn't understand why his Mom won't let him eat more snacks so close to dinner time. So Stanley learns about the vole, who eats and then store their food for later.
A) Stanley and his Dad play the recorder for the family, while Dennis shows how nightingales sing. B) Stanley and Lester learn about flying squirrels, after discovering that Lester's new toy can't actually fly.
A) When Lionel gets a practical joke kit, he uses it to play tricks on Stanley at every turn. Stanley learns about foxes in The Great Big Book of Everything in the hopes of avoiding his brother's tricks. B) Lester is upset because he is always found when he plays games of hide-and-seek with Stanley, Mimi and Marci, and then tagged before he can reach base. He looks up jackrabbits with Stanley's permission, after Dennis tells him about how they often play hide-and-seek.
A) Stanley and his friends work together against a bully. B) While visiting the Zoo for the day, Stanley and his friends learn about creature habitats.