Jessica Harper
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When young Tommy does not appear in the barn one day, the animals wonder where he had gone because they were accustomed to all of the things he did for them. But later he returns and explains his first day at school and how he would share what he had learned with them each day.
2) Nora's room
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There's such a racket coming from Nora's room that her mother imagines a series of outlandish events going on up there.
7) Uh-oh, Cleo
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What starts out as a perfectly ordinary day in the Small house turns into Stiches Saturday when Cleo gets a cut on the head after her twin brother, Jack, accidentally pulls down their "Toy House."
11) Love and death
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Boris Grushenko, a timid soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, becomes entangled in a plot to assassinate Napoleon and after a hilarious confrontation with the Angel of Death finds himself facing a firing squad.
17) My favorite year
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In 1954, the era of live TV, a hapless production assistant is given the task of keeping his alcoholic film idol out of trouble long enough to appear on the King Kaiser Hour.