A collection of 125 modern poems based on the poets' experiences of family life, as parents, children, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, cousins, nieces and nephews, and grandchildren.
Caroline worries that British spies may be lurking in Sackets Harbor, but when strange things start happening at Abbott's Shipyard Caroline wonders if a spy, either someone she has known all her life or Papa's long-lost friend, is responsible.
Each member of the Mouse family wants to watch something different on television, but they discover a solution to their problem one night when the television does not work.
Photographs and text depict the lives of seventeen families from around the country, some with step relationships, divorce, gay parents, foster siblings, and other diverse components. The material was originally a traveling exhibition, begun at the Children's Museum in Boston.
