Pollock, Penny

Brief text and photographs introduce the characteristics and uses of water.

Scarlett, a nervous young filly from a fine family of trotters, finds a home on a run-down farm in Ohio, where she makes friends with a friendly rooster and a motherless goat and calms down enough to fulfil her promise as a harness racer.

When a snail convinces Sam Slug that he is a snail without a house, they begin a futile search for Sam's lost shell. Includes facts about slugs.

In this Native-American variant of a familiar story, some turkeys make a gown of feathers for the poor girl who tends them so that she can participate in a sacred dance, but they desert her when she fails to return as promised.

Poems describe the full moon during each month of the year. American Indian names for the moon and folklore are also included.