Geraldine can't wait for the snow to come so that she can coast down the hill on her sled.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text describe what a child sees around the house and garden.

Mouse hears a rumor that snakes do not like mice and while trying to avoid his former friend, Snake, he falls into a hole from which neither Hedgehog, Squirrel, nor Rabbit can help him out.

Pearl's birthday skates have a single blade and learning to use them is harder than she expects.

Horace loves the little yellow truck that he finds in the schoolyard, but he has a problem when a classmate tries to claim it.

Geraldine resents all the attention her baby brother gets, until she spends some time with him.

In the days before his friend George's monster movie party, Horace prepares for the frightening events he expects will occur.

Geraldine the pig hates to have her little brother Willie copy her behavior and finally discovers one activity which he won't imitate.

After the end of the war in Vietnam, a young boy's grandfather dreams of restoring the wetlands of the Mekong delta, hoping that the large cranes that once lived there will return.

When his new brother comes home from the hospital, Henry discovers he's too big for some of the things he'd like to do.