Barbara M. Joosse

An Inuit child learns that her mother's love is unconditional when she disobeys and journeys across the Arctic, from village to ice floe, in search of her puppy.

Wally is a young boa constrictor who loves hugs, but his classmates at school are scared of getting hugs from him, so Wally shows them his friendly hugs are nothing to be afraid of.

A hen keeps her seven new baby chicks safe, even though they like to go exploring.

When Liam hears a load roar in the middle of the night, he must use all his ingenuity to protect his sleeping mother from a hungry bear.

While accompanying his father on the wagon train along the Santa Fe Trail, Lewis discovers what it is to be a man.

Once there was a girl, a very little girl. And there was a dragon, a very biggle dragon they were friends, evermore. One day, they play a game of hide-and-seek...But, oh, where can little girl be?

Sailor Old Robert lives a solitary existence until some performing cats come into his life.

Henry and Ruby are best friends forever, even though they do not always get along.

"Over the course of eighty years a spruce tree grows, along with the little boy who first selected it at a tree farm. At the end of its life, the tree is chosen to be the centerpiece of a city's holiday celebration"--

Harris's family decides that his dog Zippy should go to dog obedience school, but after he is trained, they miss the old Zippy.