The money jar that Rosa, Mama, and Grandma filled with their coins will be emptied to buy Rosa whatever she wants for her birthday. But what can Rosa choose that special enough-unless it's a gift they can all enjoy!

Inside Mummy's tummy is a Special Something. What, wonders her little girl could it be? It wriggles and kicks. Could it be a hippopotamus, or a dinosaur, or a cheeky monkey that will tease her when she's trying her best to be good in the car?

If it’s fate, it must be love... right? Three coincidental meetings with a handsome stranger convince Charlotte their relationship could be fate—but coincidence and love are two very different things. Charlotte has floated along in life, averse to romance, buoyed by her parents’ dreams, haunted by her traumatic past. She confuses complacency with happiness in all aspects of her life, and fear of change keeps her from venturing too far from her comfort zone. Avery enters Charlotte’s life when she most needs it, igniting a passion in her that she thought was dead. Caught up in the idea of fate, she clings to her relationship with Avery. Soon, everything begins to crumble. Charlotte must decide what’s worth more: Staying with the familiar, or leaping blindly into the unknown.

This book teaches children to nourish their own self-image at an early age.

This story was first published in Winter's Tales No. 3 in 1957. It was also published in 1959 in Japan in an English language textbook with Japanese annotations.

Every Friday is 'special day' in Charlie's class at school, when everybody takes in something special to show the rest of the class. Charlie can never find anything special enough to take, until one day he has to look after his baby sister.