"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...

Peter wants to invite Amy to his birthday party but he wants it to be a surprise.

Follows the activities of the Brambly Hedge community of field mice on a spring day as they prepare a surprise picnic for Wilfred's birthday.

Big Rig loves to smash items delivered to a construction site, including barrels, crates, tires, and even his own birthday presents.

Words and sign language depict friends helping a deaf woman celebrate her birthday.

An elephant's eleventh birthday party is marked by eleven games preceding the banquet to be eaten at the eleventh hour; but when the time toeat arrives, the birthday feast has disappeared. The reader is invited to guess the thief.

The birthday child's animal friends bring ingredients and help make a birthday cake.

After rushing through the snow to get to their friend's birthday party, two mice realize that they forgot to bring the present.

Nancy is furious when she cannot go to her friend Bree's butterfly-themed birthday party, but her family's outing might just be extraordinary enough to make her feel better. Includes facts about butterflies.

As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.