Pittman, Helena Clare

A counting rhyme about the chaos a family experiences one morning.

A clever, cheerful, hard-working farmer's son wins the hand of a Chinese princess by outwitting her father the Emperor, who treasures his daughter more than all the rice in China.

When his special friend Cyrus McCafferty, aging benefactor to Bordenville's children, moves away, Jake celebrates their friendship by buying the giant spruce usually reserved for Cyrus, and a Christmas miracle occurs.

Mom and Dad find a way to satisfy Gerald, who wants a real dinosaur for his birthday.

Ruthie and her father play games and share memories to keep warm as they walk to Uncle Phil's diner on a cold Sunday morning.

Rosa grows a variety of bright and beautiful vegetables, picks them, paints a picture, and then makes them into a tasty stew.

Grandfather tells how, when he was a child, he coped with fear during a journey alone through a dark wood to get hot coals to heat the family cabin.

A clever, cheerful, hard-working farmer's son wins the hand of a Chinese princess by outwitting her father the Emperor, who treasures his daughter more than all the rice in China.