perspective (philosophy)

Relates how one boy--who had friends, enjoyed reading, playing saxophone in the band, and had never been in trouble before--became a monster capable of entering his high school with a loaded gun and firing on his classmates, as told from the viewpoints of several victims. Each perspective is written by a different writer of young adult fiction.

Bertie the giraffe oversleeps and becomes separated from her herd, but a new friend helps him get home and gives him a new perspective in the process.

When a girl in a wheelchair calls to people far below to look up and see her, one finds a way to brighten her day.

An old man named Jones shares his perspectives about life with Andy a younger man under the rubric of "noticing." Jones has a gift for seeing what most people miss as he walks quietly through a coastal town, and concludes that most of us are placed right where we are supposed to be. Contains a reader's guide with reflective questions.

Presents a children's story about a little girl named Juliana and the townspeople of Summerville who discover that sometimes terrible things are actually blessings in disguise.

Figures from two sets of playing cards, each of which seems upside down to the other, pursue their queer and quacky quarreling, until one of the kings points out that it is all a matter of point of view.

Pairs of rhyming verses show that such things in the natural world as weeds, a breeze, sand, and ice can be seen both positively and negatively.