Amy Axelrod

The hungry Pig family learns about money and buying power as they turn the house upside down looking for enough money to buy dinner at the local restaurant.

The Pig family visits a miniature golf course and learns about shapes, angles, and geometry.

Concepts of price and quantity enter the picture when Mrs. Pig wins a five-minute shopping spree at the supermarket on Halloween night.

Because the Pig family has so many delays in getting to the beach, when they finally are ready to swim they find that the beach is closed.

Beginning in 1959, Abby, nearly eleven, writes a series of letters to Jackie Kennedy, each with sketches of outfits she has designed, as she faces family problems, concerns about neighbors, and her own desperate desire for both her first bra and a Barbie doll.