Sid sings a long song that drives Sam crazy.

In Rippling Creek, Louisiana, in 1948, eleven-year-old Tate writes letters to her favorite country singer, sharing her dreams of becoming a singer and revealing that her mother is in prison.

Sofia's family does not want to hear her singing anymore, so she must find the appropiate place to use her new superstar-sing box machine.

Sofia's family does not want to hear her singing anymore, so she must find the appropiate place to use her new superstar-sing box machine.

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.

Petra is scared of the hydra dragon she is supposed to bond with, but when the hydra accidentally poisons the King, and the dragon master, Drake, Petra must find a way to connect with her dragon, because only the hydra's song can cure them.

Pete the cat wears his school shoes when visiting the library, the lunchroom, the playground, and more while singing his special song.

A newly hatched, happily singing chick is eaten by a fox, who then starts singing before being eaten by a wolf, and so begins a chain of eating and singing for a series of animals.

Determined that their daughter realize her musical destiny, her poor but devoted parents send her away as a baby to the Venetian "ospedale," knowing she will be raised as an orphan and will never again be allowed to return home.