Liz Garton Scanlon

Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning until night, this book affirms the importance of all things great and small in the world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky.

A poetic celebration of non-traditional pockets and what they hold, pointing out that a sock is a pocket for your toes and a vase is a pocket for a rose.

A young girl finds a way to tame the winds besieging an old man who lives on a hill above her village.

A classroom of exuberant youngsters explores art in its most varied forms, from painting, music, and writing to cooking and performing.

"Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking. For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies -- unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably -- on the night Millie babysits. There's nothing she could have done. There's...

In Loomer, Texas, twelve-year-old Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Panhandle, Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the program is scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that is full of surprises.

Illustrations and rhyming text explore a community garden and what grows there, from flowers and fruit to friendships.--

"A spirited girl visits her cousins in the country for a chance to break free from the clamor and crowd of life in the city."--

A class that is terribly disappointed in their lack of a class pet discovers that having a class plant is the best thing ever.

"A litter of baby wolf pups are born in the wild and grow during their first full lunar cycle"--