An easy-to-read story about Otter's backyard swimming pool.

Otter and his friends visit the library, where they discover that they can go anywhere and have as many adventures as they want by reading books.

As a lot of otters wrestle, roll, and cavort on the water, they make such a commotion of light that Mother Moon finds her lost child.

Otter is going to learn to swim at the beach--if she can get over her fear of the sea.

Elsa Roth is delighted with the sanctuary's five new river otters, but much less thrilled with the new volunteers, especially a sullen, troubled boy named Anson with a badly scarred face--and when the otters start going missing one of the other volunteers accuses him of stealing them, but Elsa is sure that he is not responsible, and she is determined to clear him, and find the real thief.--

Easy-to-read text follows Otter as she shares a picnic with some ants.