Publisher Annotation: It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth birthday party. But then Papa must leave town to help his best friend and the Vanderbeeker children are surprised to find their maternal grandparents on their doorstep. Grandma is very critical of everything they do. Meanwhile, they find themselves learning more about their papa's father than ever before, and wishing they could...

Alice's parents get her a parrot for her birthday.

Disappointed when none of his friends can attend his pirate birthday, Monster cheers up when he goes to a pirate theme park, instead.

Follows Hamster and his friend Dog as they prepare for a birthday party.

When a bear discovers that the moon shares his birthday, he buys the moon a beautiful hat as a present.

Dana soon learns that receiving a big white elephant for her birthday is not as wonderful as she thought it would be.

Clementine Brown received a nurse's outfit and a first-aid kit for her birthday. So when any emergency came about Nurse Clementine was there to help.

Dear Carys, Zoe and Andrea. Come and join me for my fortieth birthday adventure weekend, full of mysteries and surprises the like of which you can't imagine. When Joanne's friends reluctantly accept an invitation to her birthday party, it quickly becomes clear that there is more to this weekend than they are expecting. One of them is hiding a secret. And Joanne is planning to reveal it... A weekend away in a cottage in the woods sounds like fun...

By following the instructions in the coded message, Tim finds his birthday present.

The Birthday Bird flies to a child's house on their special day to bake them a birthday cake the Kartoo way.