Sailing sleds, snow flurries, warm quilts, evenings by the fireside, and other winter delights are celebrated in these acrostic poems, while the colors and textures of winter are captured in the lino-cut illustrations

While spending the summer on his grandfather's farm in the French countryside, eleven-year-old Etienne discovers a secret dating back to World War II and encounters the ghosts of Jewish children who suffered a dreadful fate under the Nazis.

Describes the summer season, with its recreation, heat, insects, and garden vegetables. When read vertically, the first letters of the lines of text spell related words arranged alphabetically, from "awning" to "zodiac."

Excerpts from Thoreau's Walden highlight his belief in the inherent value of living life in harmony with nature.