Lasky, Kathryn

The artist Georgia O'Keeffe spends the day transforming the materials, colors, and landscape of her desert home into paintings. Includes biographical notes.

Text and photographs show how a family taps the sap from maple trees and processes it into maple syrup.

When his Jewish parents send him to a Minnesota logging camp to escape the influenza epidemic of 1918, ten-year-old Marven finds a special friend.

A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from czarist Russia.

Princess Kazunomiya, half-sister of the Emperor of Japan, relates in her diary and in poems the confusing events occurring in the Imperial Palace in 1858, including political and romantic intrigue.

In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.

Mem, 12, keeps a diary of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.

Clyde is nervous about what he should take for show and tell, but he ends up sharing a wonderful surprise with his class.

A little girl has a tantrum and disrupts her whole household.

Two young girls enjoy playing and exploring in the nearby pond where they discover tadpoles, insects, wildflowers in the summer, and a place to ice skate in the winter.