Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.

The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they alway are.

Everything is yellow, red, orange. Everything is chilly, frisky, gusty. Everything is changing, turning. It's the middle of Fall. Can you see it? Can you taste it? Can you smell it? Can you imagine it?

Five friends sit happily on a windowsill, waiting for something amazing to happen. The owl is waiting for the moon. The pig is waiting for the rain. The bear is waiting for the wind. The puppy is waiting for the snow. And the rabbit is just looking out the window because he likes to wait! What will happen? Will patience win in the end? Or someday will the friends stop waiting and do something unexpected?--Publisher.

"Animals and children alike watch as the world transforms from the dark and dead of winter to a full and blooming spring"--

Bright illustrations paired with interactive call-and-response questions tell of what makes a house a home.

When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.

A mouse named Prudencia, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school.

Penny comes home from school eager to share her very own song, but must wait until the time is right to teach it to her parents and the babies.

The morning after a snowfall finds animals and children playing.