"A funny, noisy parrot comes into Jack's world and brings him closer to his dad in an unexpected and moving way"--

Lonely Gingerbread Baby, having set out to find a friend, enters a bakery where he tries to talk to different cookies and other figures, but winds up leading a crowd back to his house on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale.

"Sophie meets Goose at the park and the two become fast friends"--

Once popular, an increasingly shabby library book grows lonely until a young girl rediscovers it, but when it becomes lost again both the book and the girl wonder if they will have a happy ending.

Everyone and everything in the town of Neatasapin is tidy, except Emmaline who likes to dig dirt and jump in puddles, and wants to adopt an untidy bunny.

Lonely Turtle's only friend is his shadow until he decides to build a deck, then a garden, then houses and other buildings until, while he naps, new friends arrive.

While searching for a replacement heart at the Spare Parts Mart, a lonely robot finds a friend.

"Every day, in a house by the sea, a little boy watches his father leave for a long day's work. One night, a great storm washes a small whale onto the beach. The boy discovers the whale is a good listener. The father discovers the boy is lonely. Together, they return the whale to the sea. And from that day on, the boy learns that the father can be a good listener too"--

"A lonely ghost finds a friend in a bright red balloon"--Provided by publisher.

Little Mole has no friends since moving to a new home so he molds a snowball into a bear, wishing that it will come to life.