A novice wood carver is momentarily defeated when people laugh at the result of a winter of work.
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When the family moves from Germany to Canada in the 1930's, a nine-year-old girl discovers the reason for her awkwardness and apparent inability to do anything right.
A young Indian sets out to hunt on Manhattan island and discovers some strange people with white faces.
One winter John Thompson skis across the Sierra Nevada Mountains and creates a path upon which mail and people may travel, thus earning his nickname "Snowshoe Thompson."
Relates the experiences of two young brothers and their family, immigrants from Sweden, from their arrival in New York through the journey to their new home in Minnesota.
Boo and Baa do everything they can to get a cat out of a tree.
Andrew and his family are excited when a photographer comes to take a picture of their dancing bear, but then Bearly can't be found.
A young girl in El Salvador goes to the market with her father and helps her family obtain necessities by trading a precious item of her own.
Franny and her friends goes on a picnic with her animal friends.
When Emily's parents move to an eighteen-room house so that her four unpredictable cousins can live with them, life for Emily, an only child, is never again the same.
The author selects some of the most requested poems from her own work, grouped under such headings as "Think About People," "Suddenly," and "Whoever Planned the World."
Every day is the same for Pablo's father, Then one afternoon the ground growls, hisses smoke, and swallows up his plow. A volcano is erupting is the middle of his cornfield!
Boo and Baa go out in a boat and find themselves stuck on a rock but they have a problem getting loose.
A young lemming is haunted by doubts about the purpose of the great march westward to the sea.
Follows the misadventures of Boo and Baa as they prepare to clean the house.
When the family moves from Germany to Canada in the 1930's, a nine-year-old girl discovers the reason for her awkwardness and apparent inability to do anything right.