20 new animal stories for reading aloud to people with dementia focus on various cultures and their customs: A pair of storks reports via letter from their winter residence in Africa. Animals from Northern and Southern Europe, carrying unfamiliar rituals and religions, encounter local farm residents. This brings together a wide range of customs related to weddings, births and deaths, naming ceremonies, as well as festivals and holidays. Themes of family togetherness, language barriers, and hospitality are interwoven with toothaches, summer heat, and oversleeping. The humorous and stimulating stories foster closeness and understanding, invite reminiscence with biography-oriented questions, and provide many suggestions for shared activities.