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 father tells his son the story of how he damaged a neighbor's tomato garden when he was a boy and what he did to make amens.

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.

A young boy is joined by his animal friends as he and his little red wagon go up the hill to Grandma's house.

"A celebration of common neighborhood wildlife--worms, slugs, caterpillars, ladybugs, robins, mourning doves, houseflies, spiders, squirrels, skunks, etc.--in lively, funny, informative, humorously illustrated verses. Educational backmatter about poetic technique and the natural histories of the animals completes the book"--

When a mother and daughter are separated by the mother's incarceration, they find a special way to keep their loving relationship alive.

Aunt Agatha and Elizabeth imagine the travels of the rug on which they are sitting, from China across the sea to the west coast of the United States, and onward in a journey designed to let its carriers stop only in cities beginning with the letter "s."