Petra Mathers

While her mother is treated for a serious illness, Rosa stays with her aunt and cousin on a farm in the Black Forest.

Lottie the chicken has a number of adventures at the beach, during which her new towel comes in handy.

Mrs. Merriwether takes in a stray cat that proves to have an amazing effect on her piano students.

The cobbler in a tiny Mexican town is so busy that he cannot make shoes for his daughter, so she makes her own shoes, which take her far away to a rich man's home where she must clean and cook all day. Includes a recipe for flan.

From undies to jammies to a much-loved hand-me-down sweatshirt, the talking clothes in these poems know just who they are and who's wearing them.

A little boy floats away on his balloon across mountains, plains, cities, and the sea, until he lands on a desert island.

A little lamb uses her clever wiles to keep a coyote from eating her up.