A star is how you know it s almost night. As soon as you see one, there s another, and another. And the dark that comes doesn t feel so dark. What if you could have a star?

Wilma decides to plant Christmas trees with the help of her young neighbor, Parker.

Explores the ways thankfulness can find expression throughout the day.

"The farm's creatures prepare for night and rest"--

It is a lucky author who has a dog to greet her in the morning and help her with ideas, because everything is better with a dog--but a dog who has an author is also lucky.

As winter melts into spring, the frozen earth turns into magnificent mud.

Rosie, a little dog, is afraid of nothing except thunder and during one very bad storm, she discovers that the boy who she lives with is frightened, too.

After hearing some men call his father and him hillbillies on his first trip into the nearby town of Hudson, a young boy is not so sure he still wants to become a basket-maker.

Explores the ways thankfulness can find expression throughout the day.

A house sits in a field under the ever-changing sky. For a while the house was full of laughter and children and the sounds of lives being lived under its roof. And then, for a long time, it was empty and quiet. New people came to look, but they always left. Will anyone come to stay?