Jonathan Bean

Real cowboys are gentle, patient, and creative as they move hundreds of cattle, make camp, and dream under the stars.

"An excited and frustrated boy watches hopefully as wintry weather develops slowly into a 'big snow.'"--

Ten-year-old Emmy wants to be an ordinary girl, but the evil nanny Miss Barmy, now a rat, has trapped five of her former charges and when she uses them to steal jewels belonging to Emmy's parents, it is up to Emmy, Joe, and their rodent friends to stop her.

A sleepless city girl imagines what it would be like to get away from snoring family members and curl up alone with one's thoughts in the cool night air under wide-open skies.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow a family as they move to a new town.

One starry night, as all sorts of animals watch over their young, Mary and Joseph watch over their baby boy, Jesus, in Bethlehem.