Wendy Watson

The family busily prepares for Thanksgiving and has a grand feast with visiting relatives. Includes Thanksgiving poems.

A family gets ready for Halloween, preparing costumes, making goodies for the school party, and carving jack-o'lanterns. Halloween jokes and rhymes are interspersed throughout the text.

When her cousin Bree is accused of murdering her deadbeat ex-husband's attorney, ice-cream parlor proprietor Tallulah Jones works to prove Bree's innocence and find the real killer.

A young girl shares pleasures and disappointments with the other members of a large Wisconsin farm family in the early twentieth century.

Anna, born in America to a Polish immigrant family, grows up on a Wisconsin farm amid the Polish Catholic customs of her relatives and neighbors. She often longs to escape the rigors of farm life to visit the romanticized Poland of her dreams.

Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.

Listed rhyming words and simple illustrations depict how a mother and baby spend the day together delighting in the world and each other.

Cleery finds a box with seven magic items in it and even though the magic is soon spent it brings three friends something of value.