Bauer, Marion Dane

When 12-year-old Stacy gets fed up with her pregnant stepmother and leaves her Oklahoma panhandle home, she is led by a pair of dogs, one about to whelp, to the home of Old Ella, who gives her a new perspective on life.

When eleven-year-old Tim's beloved grandfather develops Alzheimer's Disease, Tim tries to restore and save him by taking him out for a fishing adventure at the pond, but the outing turns into a disaster.

Simple rhymes tell why kittens, bears, kangaroos, and other animals behave the way they do.

The overwhelming love of parents for their new baby is gloriously portrayed in warm, loving poetry accompanied by lush, glowing oil paintings of a radiantly rosy-cheeked young child.

Pictures and rhyming text show how some fathers, animal, bird, and human, take care of their children by bringing them food, playing with them, and keeping them safe.

The author explores the influences that led her to become a writer including the importance of inspiration.

Simple text and illustrations introduce early readers to the life and accomplishments of Christopher Columbus.

Simply describes how various baby animals come into the world and what happens when a human baby is born.

When her great-grandmother is placed in a nursing home, a twelve-year-old is sent to a foster home where the fanatically religious father presses his attentions on her.

One brown bunny goes out one day and finds many friends who would like to play.