Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey

With the help of his grandparents, six-year-old Nathan catches fireflies and keeps them in a jar by his bed, just as his father did when he was six.

Salah, a boy living in Egypt, wants to lift his camel's sadness, so he prays that the camel will learn Allah's hundredth name, which is unknown to man.

Miriam, a young Jewish girl, is forced to leave her parents and hide with strangers in the country during the German occupation of Holland.

"From animals and plants to the natural phenomena and sensory imagines, this rhythmic poem employs a...refrain to introduce interconnectedness..."--amazon.com.

Unknowingly descended from a line of seal folk, fifteen-year-old Marian living on a remote North Sea island finds herself spellbound by a mysterious white whale.

Guided by the beggar he so often shunned, a young, spoiled boy in Persia must quickly collect the ingredients to make a healing stew for his dying father.

With the help of Appleblossom, the talking cat, eight-year-old Naphtali comes up with a plan, involving traditional rituals at the Passover seder, to convince his father that a cat is just what the family needs.

When a little boy goes to the toy store to buy a new stuffed bunny, he decides he likes his old bunny just the way she is.

In this bedtime story, woodland creatures answer the question posed in the title.

Eight-year-old Theo takes the famous scientist, Albert Einstein, sailing on the lake and rescues his compass when it falls into the water.