Pikkuli

Mommy and Daddy Byrd's kids Sister and Brother hatch swiftly and easily, but their youngest, Pikkuli, needs some encouragement. Eventually Pikkuli does break the eggshell, but he's scared of everything new. Will he ever step outside the nest?

Pikkuli runs away from his family to find someone like himself. In the woods, Mrs. Hazel Grouse leads her seven little nestlings in a perfect queue and Pikkuli decides to join them, but they all fall down like dominoes.

Pikkuli wants a playmate, but everyone else is busy. At the pond, Pikkuli meets the wobbly shorebird, Honkkeli. Honkkeli is close to drowning - can Pikkuli help him?

Pikkuli moves around by hopping even though he is a bird. Everyone tries to encourage him to fly because that is what birds are "supposed" to do. Pikkuli doesn't know how to fly but he knows how to fish. Pikkuli and Honkkeli catch a great pile of fish.

Pikkuli is afraid of the dark. Not just that, his big Brother frightens him by making monstrous shadow figures. Mummy and Daddy try to help.

Pikkuli is learning how to express his feelings. Daddy tries one thing after another with Pikkuli, but to everything Daddy suggests, Pikkuli's answers is "Nooo!"