"This rhyming picture-book story celebrates the ordinary people-grownups and kids-who hold our world together with their daily lives and work. Teachers, bus drivers, grocery clerks, mail carriers, and the other folks who give a community its core identity deserve to be celebrated...
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A father tells his son the story of how he damaged a neighbor's garden when he was a boy and what he did to make amends.
As a family sits down to enjoy a meal, thoughts of those who provide the food, from farmers who plant and tend seeds to store clerks who sell groceries, fill each one with gratitude.
A day at the beach is the occasion for this rhyming look at the relationships between things.
As a family sits down to enjoy a meal, thoughts of those who provide the food, from farmers who plant and tend seeds to store clerks who sell groceries, fill each one with gratitude.
Annabelle Applegate will not stop tap-dancing no matter what the frustrated citizens of Fiddlers Creek do to make her quit.
When his teacher, Miss Perry, is killed in a car accident, Stevie and his elementary school classmates take turns sharing memories of her, especially her fondest wish for each day.
In each of three episodes which involve either an unfriendly neighbor, his sister, or his mom, Bertie succeeds in being rewarded with his favorite, a hot fudge sundae.
Benny sets off in the morning with five shiny new pennies to spend and eventually buys something for his mother, brother, sister, dog, and cat.
Kate's letters to her best friend back home chart her family's trip through the South and back up through Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and reveal her true affection for the brother with whom she is always fighting.
Bertie tries to get spiffy for his class picture, but several disastrous events result in him looking "interesting" instead.
When ten-year-old Emily learns that her mother has cancer, the two of them begin a ritual that will help Emily remember her mother after she is dead.
* MOONBEAM GOLD AWARD * * GROWING GOOD KIDS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY AND NATIONAL MASTER JUNIOR GARDENER PROGRAM * Milk doesn't just appear in your refrigerator, nor do apples grow in the bowl on the kitchen counter. Be...