Illustrations and simple, rhyming text portray animals of all kinds enjoying a picnic.

Maggie and Pie make fruit salad to eat at a picnic.

"A child busy reading in a treehouse spots a family who seems to have just arrived on Earth for a picnic. The youngest member of the alien family holds a mind-bendingly strange object. Could it be a book from outer space? By the end of this...wordless story, each child has a girt to treasure from a kind stranger." --book jacket

"It's the hottest day of the year, hotter than broccoli soup, hotter than the Atacama Desert, hotter than the surface of the sun. It's just the right kind of day for a boy and his grandad to go for a picnic. But as the sun beats down, Grandad keeps having to stop for a rest, and by the time they find the perfect picnic spot, some pirates have beaten them to it. Good job they have enough food to share!"--From the publisher.

On the first day of spring Pig sets out to have a picnic by the pond, meets Goose, and so discovers a new friend.