Pat Brisson

Kate's letters to her best friend back home chart her family's trip through the South and back up through Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and reveal her true affection for the brother with whom she is always fighting.

Hester and her younger sister Edna play Queen and her maid, pretend to be mermaids, eat chocolate, and experience a thunderstorm.

Benny sets off in the morning with five shiny new pennies to spend and eventually buys something for his mother, brother, sister, dog, and cat.

A day at the beach is the occasion for this rhyming look at the relationships between things.

A father tells his son the story of how he damaged a neighbor's tomato garden when he was a boy and what he did to make amends.

Known for her lovely hair, Melissa wants to be seen as beautiful for something other than her appearance.

"A picture-book celebration of the ordinary people--grownups and kids--who hold our world together by going about their daily lives and work"--

Common Critters celebrates neighborhood wildlife in verse. A familiar cast of characters--worms, slugs, caterpillars, ladybugs, robins, mourning doves, houseflies, spiders, squirrels, skunks, and others--crawls, runs, buzzes, and flits through these lively poems, which show how exotic these seemingly ordinary creatures really are.