Catherine Stock

There seems to be no place for the smallest child in a family's busy preparations for Thanksgiving, until Grandpa steps in and they perform a vital task everyone else has forgotten.

Monsieur Monmouton takes his farm animals to Paris, France, for a holiday.

A brother and sister spend Easter with their mother in a little cabin on the lake.

Gus and Grandpa have a loving, warm relationship.

Vinnie Ream's struggle to pursue her art in Washington against great odds. She fought to get her sculpture of Lincoln placed in the Capitol rotunda.

Presents the life of the eighteenth-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, who devised the modern classification system for naming plants and animals.

"Warm and friendly characters welcome a new student to the first day of school"-- Provided by publisher.

Second-grader Gus wants a store-bought Halloween costume to wear to school, but because he knows his parents do not believe in buying costumes, he turns to his grandfather for help.

After selling oranges in the market, a Haitian mother and daughter have enough money to ride the tap-tap, a truck that picks up passengers and lets them off when they bang on the side of the vehicle.

Suffering in a family full of females, ten-year-old Justin feels that cleaning and keeping house are women's work until he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch.