Barbara M Joosse

When a Masai father in Africa answers his son's questions, the boy learns that his father's love for him is unconditional.

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.

Harriet gives examples of polite words and expressions to use in various social situations to make them more pleasant.

Two boys discover that their mother loves them equally but in different ways.

"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"--

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

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.

Nikolai, a bear who lives in the orphanage in Novosibirsk, Russia, does not seem to fit in until the day some visitors arrive from America.

While celebrating the Days of the Dead, a young Mexican girl remembers her wonderful grandmother who sang songs, made tortillas, chased monsters away, and loved butterflies.