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.

Pappy Boyington is the squadron-leader of the "Black Sheep Squadron", a group of misfit Marine fighter pilots stationed on an island in the Pacific, during World War II. Pappy often needs to intercede in altercations at the base, but everyone seems to pull together when they are assigned missions in the air.