Picture Puffin

Everything is always the same at Grandpa's house, even the things he says--until one unusual morning.

Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.

A little boy goes grocery shopping for his mother and tries hard to remember her instructions.

Expecting her new stepmother to be mean, ugly, and horrible, Hessie is surprised and confused to find her not wicked at all.

A little girl observes animals and insects in the meadow, and finds they will approach her if she is very quiet.

A young girl and an old woman form a friendship that lasts even after the woman enters a nursing home.

Mr. Gumpy's human and animal friends squash into his old car and go for a drive - until it starts to rain.

Norman, who is the doorman at the basement of the museum, enters his mouse-size sculpture in a contest.

Max waits up on Christmas Eve to see Santa Claus coming down the chimney.

Relates the consequences of a stonecutter's foolish longing for power.