Eve Bunting

Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother. Follow the progress of a little girl and her father as they purchase "a garden," and board the bus to carry it home. The pansies, tulips, daffodils, geraniums, and daisies are lovingly planted in a window box, and the candles on the cake are lighted--just as Mom walks in the door to find her daughter, her husband, and her birthday surprise.

Mr. and Mrs. Moose try to invite a turkey to their Thanksgiving feast.

Mrs. Bear plans a surprise Valentine's Day celebration for Mr. Bear despite their usual hibernating habits at that time of year.

A young boy creates a summer playhouse by planting sunflowers and saves the seeds to make another house the next year.

A rather ordinary pumpkin wins a prize for "the best-loved pumpkin at the fair, the best-loved pumpkin anywhere."

A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.

All the animals of the barnyard community hurry to greet their newest member, who is just pecking his way out of an egg.

When leprechauns Ari, Boo, and Col need to place the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, they cannot help getting into mischief along the way.

A boy standing with his father on the shore watches five Orca whales and imagines them talking underwater in their star-dance light while the bubbles bubble up.

The reader is invited to help Duck and his animal friends find a missing item.