Billy loves to get dirty, but he hates to take baths! He's not the least bit upset when dirt and mud start to pile up in his icky belly button-until a plant sprouts from it! He tries everything to hide his condition, but his navel garden just keeps growing. What on earth will Billy do to finally get the plant out? Peter Maloney and Felicia Zekauskas, the zany team who gave us The Magic Hockey Stickand His Mother's Nose, delight readers with Billy's wacky and wonderful adventure.

Solomon, a little boy with two belly buttons, discovers that being different can be a good thing.

Once there was a little boy who lost his bellybutton. He went to the jungle to ask if anyone there had seen it and discovered that almost all animals, from zebras to warthogs, have a bellybutton of some kind. All animals except the crocodile. . .

Jack has a secret. Where other kids have a belly button, he has a scar. The day he was born, Jack needed surgery to save his life, and he had two more operations while he was still a baby. Jack's smart and athletic, and he can do almost everything other kids can do. He's always felt embarrassed about his lack of a belly button though. When he goes swimming, he wears a swim-shirt, and he never, ever, lets other kids see his scar. When his teacher announces the class will make special "me boxes" containing important personal things, Jack decides to share the surgical staples that kept his stomach closed after his operations. Once he does, everyone will know he doesn't have a belly button. Will they think he's weird? Will they laugh? And will Jack be brave enough to finally tell everyone his secret? A true story, The Boy Without a Belly Button encourages acceptance of children with physical differences or medical conditions.

It’s Yasmine’s first day of school and she has butterflies in her tummy! Speaking of her tummy, what’s that little round thing on it called again? And what is it for anyway? Yasmine’s Belly Button is a touching story that explores the depth of love in a mother-daughter relationship, all told through the wild imagination of a 4 year-old. Along the way, little Yasmine discovers just how connected she is to her mom and all her new classmates.

Having allowed his belly button to fill up with dirt, Billy is unhappy when he finds a bush growing there.

Patty has spent much of her childhood seeing to her older brother Tommy, a hemophiliac who's often confined to bed. When Patty is eleven and Tommy nineteen, he asks her to make a secret pact with him, one that will strike a blow against his debilitating disease. If she says yes, he'll share the magic inside a small orange box containing folded pieces of paper he calls "belly buttons." He promises that these little packets hold enough substance to carry her through the darkest of future days. Explaining that by choosing carefully using the clue atop each one and performing the ritual printed inside the lid, the words written within will act as a guide toward her future path. As the decades pass and Patty struggles to both keep her end of the pact and selfishly hold onto a love letter meant for someone else, she opens six of the seven belly buttons and is always astounded at her brothers' foresight in creating them. With only one belly button left in the little orange box to last her the rest of her days, she must ask herself if she believes enough in its magic to offer it to her brother in his time of need. If so, can she also find a way to unburden herself of the yet-to-be-delivered letter?