"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...

"Their lives began together, but their worlds couldn't be more different. After thirty years of missed connections, they're about to meet again.."-- Minnie Cooper and Quinn Hamilton have never met, but their mothers gave birth to them at the same hospital just after midnight on New Year's Day. Quinn was given the cash prize for being the first baby born in London in 1990-- and the name Minnie was meant to have, as well. Since then each of her birthdays...

"One month short of her wedding day--and her thirtieth birthday--Nadia Palacio finds herself standing up to her infuriating, cheating fiancé for the first time in... well, ever. But that same courage doesn't translate to breaking the news to her Argentinian family. She's hyperventilating before facing them when she glimpses a magazine piece about a Latina woman celebrating herself--with a second quinceañera, aka Sweet 15! And that gives Nadia a...

Disappointed that his friends seem to have forgotten his birthday, Little Mouse goes skiing by himself.

Billy is reluctant to share his birthday presents with the other little monsters, but then something happens to make him change his mind.

Carlos is jealous of his friend Billy's new bicycle and desperately wants a new one of his own for his upcoming birthday.

Edward, a shy young bear, is not ready for birthday pool parties with high-spirited, grade-school bears.

Before Lewis's birthday party, Gilbert's mother wisely substitutes a toy for the frying pan Gilbert wants to give Lewis.

Mr. Rabbit was trying to help a little girl decide what would be the perfect birthday gift for her mother. The little girl said her mother liked red, yellow, green and blue but when Mr. Rabbit suggested such things as a red roof, a yellow taxicab, a green emerald and a blue lake the little girl said these things would not do. Mr. Rabbit and the little girl finally found the perfect gift.