Five little dumplings are woken up by Mama Dumplings saying "rise and shine" for the day. As each dumpling wakes up, they demonstrate how they get ready for school independently. The book starts with five little dumplings sleeping and leads down to the last little dumpling waking up alone. What will happen next?

This is a fun story about children dumplings aimed at 1-4 year olds to learn counting, sequence, repetition, rhyming, and opposites. Each of these elements leads the children through a story of how the five little dumplings get ready for school.