Margaret Chodos-Irvine

Despite the advice of others in her family, Ella Sarah persists in wearing the striking and unusual outfit of her own choosing.

A Chinese American child fears that the food her parents are preparing to sell on the Fourth of July will not be eaten.

Brannon is afraid of thunder until his older brother compares thunder to one of Brannon's favorite subjects--dinosaurs.

An exploration of the four seasons, told through each season's distinct sounds.

A parent describes everything there is to love about a child, from a stretch and yawn in the morning to dreams at night.

Greets the birds and animals of the tundra as they experience the change of seasons in their frozen northern land.

"Spiraling outward from the dramatic life story of a woman called Stone Telling," this is an "interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork and music ... [which tells of] the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast." --Cover of U. of California Press pbk. ed.