Marianne Martens

A mouse discovers an extraordinary stone that can bring delight or disaster to the world. Halfway through, the book splits into two sections, each offering a different ending.

Felipa, who lives in a village in the Andes, misses her grandmother very much and tries to find out where she has gone, until her father explains that her spirit will return every November during the celebrations of the Day of the Dead.

Hilda is worried when her beautiful egg does not hatch, until she hears a voice from inside asking when Easter will arrive and sets out to find the answer.

Bearing a precious pearl as the gift of all creatures in the sea, a young seahorse visits the newborn King of Peace.

When snowmen, Jimmy, Jack, and Junior, find the weather outside too cold and lonely on Christmas Eve, the neighborhood children come and help by creating new friends for them.

A tabby cat, failing to intimidate the animals he is stalking, wonders why they are acting so strangely until a hedgehog explains that springtime is the time for love.