Eve Bunting

Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother.

A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.

As Colin imagines himself in a series of adventures beginning with joining a pirate crew, his mother assures him that she will always be there to help if he needs her.

A little boy is certain that his expectant mother will give birth to a baby brother.

A mother shares with her child all the ways in which family members and friends were loving and welcoming before the child was even born.

Annie Moore cares for her two younger brothers on board the ship sailing from Ireland to America where she becomes the first immigrant processed through Ellis Island, January 1, 1892, her fifteenth birthday.

As summer ends and they get ready to go back to school, two young girls try to deal with the news that the grandparents they love are getting a divorce.