Frances Gilbert

A young girl learns that there is a time and a place for everything, including wearing her beloved tutu.

Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text celebrate girls who race, fly, and drive everything from a dump truck to a rocket ship.

When oozing slime threatens to cover the whole town, residents work together to remove the menace, but is it really gone?

"Can you hug a forest? Of course you can. First you hug the air: open your arms, lift up your chin, and breathe in all the way down to your toes. Then you hug a leaf and a flower and a trail and a stream and all the other wondrous natural elements that make up a forest. Take every chance to soak in your natural surroundings and be grateful for nature"--