Contains three Dr. Seuss stories including "Butter battle book, " in which the Zooks and Yooks wage war over bread and butter; "Daisy-Head Mayzie, " in which Mayzie, a girl with a daisy growing from her head, learns about the drawbacks of fame; and "Horton hatches the egg, " the story of an elephant who means what he says.

Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time. An otherwise typical soldier in WWII, without warning, he jumps back and forth in his life with no control over where he is going next. Sometimes he is an ophthalmologist at home in suburbia; deep in World War II Europe, surviving the Allied bombing of Dresden; on the planet Tralfamadore, being held captive by aliens in an intergalactic zoo--accompanied by a porn star. In the end, he learns that the many tragic...

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge for their WWII Japanese captors, unaware of an Allied mission to blow it up.